
Pope Leo XIV gives advice for living with hope in a ‘troubled era’
Pope Leo XIV claps with pilgrims during an audience for the Jubilee of Hope in St. Peter’s Square on Oct. 25, 2025. / Credit: Vatican

Pope Leo XIV claps with pilgrims during an audience for the Jubilee of Hope in St. Peter’s Square on Oct. 25, 2025. / Credit: Vatican

Pope Leo XIV sits next to Cardinal Mario Grech, general secretary of the Vatican’s synod office, during the jubilee of synod teams and participatory bodies

The sun rises over the main gate with the renowned sign “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work makes you free”) of the Museum of Auschwitz/Birkenau German Nazi

Pope Leo XIV greets a baby during an audience with the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family at the

Cardinal Ján Chryzostom Korec. / Credit: Nitra Diocese Rome, Italy, Oct 24, 2025 / 10:44 am (CNA). Cardinal Ján Korec, a Jesuit and secret bishop

The faithful pray before the altar at Knock Shrine in Knock, Ireland, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA Dublin, Ireland, Oct 24, 2025

The sun rises over the main gate with the renowned sign “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work makes you free”) of the Museum of Auschwitz/Birkenau German Nazi

José Luis Bazán, legal adviser to the Commission of Episcopal Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) in Brussels. / Credit: Victoria Cardiel/EWTN News Vatican City,

Pope Leo XIV and King Charles III meet before their prayer together in the Sistine Chapel during a historic meeting at the Vatican on Thursday,

Pope Leo XIV addresses the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre at the Vatican on Oct. 23, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Oct

Pope Leo XIV meets with participants of the fifth World Meeting of Popular Movements on Oct. 23, 2025, in the Vatican’s Paul VI Audience Hall.

Pope Leo XIV and King Charles III walk together in the Sistine Chapel during a historic meeting that included a prayer service at the Vatican,

Antonia Salzano is the mother of St. Carlo Acutis. / Credit: “EWTN Noticias”/Screenshot ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 23, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Antonia Salzano,

Bishop Philippe Christory of Chartres, France. / Credit: Eichthus, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 23, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).

Pope Leo XIV waves to pilgrims gathered for the Mass for the Jubilee of Catechists on Sept. 28, 2025, in St. Peter’s Square at the

Cardinal Pietro Parolin celebrates a Mass for peace in Ukraine on Nov. 17, 2022, in the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome. / Credit:

Pope Leo XIV greets a baby during his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025 / Credit: Vatican

St. John Henry Newman near the end of his life, in 1887. / Credit: Babouba, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Vatican City, Oct 22, 2025

Bishop Nicholas Hudson was named the next bishop of Plymouth, England, by Pope Leo XIV on Oct. 21, 2025. / Credit: @mikedavies Plymouth, England, Oct

null / Credit: Shutterstock AI/Shutterstock Rome, Italy, Oct 22, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). As world leaders raise concerns about widespread loneliness and declining social

In 1984, Pope John Paul II met in Rome with 300,000 young people from all over the world in a meeting that laid the foundations

A view of the Vatican Apostolic Library in 2021. / Credit: Franco Origlia/Getty Images CNA Staff, Oct 21, 2025 / 15:56 pm (CNA). Reports circulating

French Police officers seal off the entrance to the Louvre Museum after a jewelry heist on Oct. 19, 2025, in Paris. / Credit: Kiran Ridley/Getty

Cardinal Pietro Parolin speaks at the release of Aid to the Church in Need’s “Religious Freedom in the World Report 2025” at the Vatican on