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Pope Leo XIV answers questions from the media outside Castel Gandolfo in Italy on Oct. 7, 2025. / Credit: Hannah Brockhaus/CNA Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Oct

Bishop Pavel Konzbul of Brno, Czech Republic. / Credit: Diocese of Brno Rome, Italy, Oct 7, 2025 / 09:47 am (CNA). Czech Catholic bishops welcomed

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

Pope Leo XIV joins the Australian community for evening prayer at Domus Australia Catholic Chapel in Rome on Monday, Oct. 6, 2025. / Credit: Vatican

Young girls hold posters that translate to “Every Life is Important and Precious” at the March for Life in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Oct. 4, 2025.

Pope Leo XIV shakes hands with Knights of Columbus Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly during an audience with Knights of Columbus leadership at the Vatican on

Pope Leo XIV waves from the popemobile at the crowds gathered in St. Peter’s Square for Mass on Pentecost Sunday on June 8, 2025. /

The Sistine Hall of the Vatican Apostolic Library. / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA Vatican City, Oct 6, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Long before cloud servers

Sister Norman Pimentel, “the immigrants’ nun,” participated in an Oct. 2, 2025, meeting with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican. / Credit: Victoria Cardiel/EWTN News

Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on October 5, 2025. / Daniel Ibañez Vatican City, Oct 5, 2025 /

Pope Leo XIV signs his first apostolic exhortation, ‘Dilexi te’, at the Vatican, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025 / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Oct 4,

Pope Leo XIV greets a member of the Swiss Guard during a swearing-in ceremony at the Vatican, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025 / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV receives the latest edition of the report “Nicaragua: A Persecuted Church,” by Martha Patricia Molina, on Oct. 2, 2025. / Credit: Courtesy

A 13th-century fresco of St. Francis of Assisi by the Florentine painter Cimabue, one of the earliest depictions of the saint, is located in the

Pope Leo XIV greets an elderly woman at the Vatican on Oct. 3, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 3, 2025 /

Britain’s new archbishop of Canterbury-designate, Sarah Mullally, speaks at Canterbury Cathedral in southeast England following the announcement of her posting on Friday, Oct. 3, 2025.

Father Custodio Ballester. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Hazteoir.org Ann Arbor, Michigan, Oct 3, 2025 / 14:23 pm (CNA). Freedom of speech and religion in

Candle lights in Fourvière Basilica, in Lyon, France, on Dec. 8, 2022. / Ccredit: Diocèse de Lyon ACI MENA, Oct 3, 2025 / 08:00 am

Swiss Guards model the new military dress uniform in a courtyard of the Swiss Guards’ Vatican barracks during an Oct. 2, 2025, presentation. The uniform,

An armed police officer talks to a member of the local community outside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, north Manchester, England, on Thursday,

Archbishop Giuseppe Baturi (left), the secretary-general of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, meets with Latin patriarch Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa in the Holy Land during a Sept.

Pope Leo XIV greets participants attending the Oct. 1-3 Migrants and Refugees in Our Common Home summit in Rome on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. /

A 13th-century fresco of St. Francis of Assisi by the Florentine painter Cimabue, one of the earliest depictions of the saint, is located in the

null / Credit: Photographee.eu/Shutterstock London, England, Oct 1, 2025 / 14:35 pm (CNA). One of the United Kingdom’s leading experts in bioethics has warned that