
Pope Leo XIV to focus on Christian unity, relations with Islam in Turkey and Lebanon
Pope Leo XIV departs from Rome on Thursday morning for his first international apostolic journey. The six day trip will include visiting Turkey and Lebanon.

Pope Leo XIV departs from Rome on Thursday morning for his first international apostolic journey. The six day trip will include visiting Turkey and Lebanon.

Interior of the Church of Jesus and Mary in Rome, Italy / Credit: Mentnafunangann / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) Rome, Italy, Nov 26, 2025 /

Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta, Secretary of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts. / Credit: “EWTN Noticias”/Screenshot Vatican City, Nov 26, 2025 / 11:15 am (CNA). The

Pope Leo XIV meets with Ukrainian children who were welcomed by Caritas Italy during the summer on July 3, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit:

The main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. / Credit: Jorge Royan (CC BY-SA 3.0). Vatican City, Nov 26, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).

null / Credit: Patrick Thomas/Shutterstock EWTN News, Nov 26, 2025 / 05:00 am (CNA). Slovenian voters have rejected a proposed euthanasia law in a Nov.

Prince Albert II of Monaco in 2025. / Credit: VALERY HACHE/Getty Images ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 25, 2025 / 17:01 pm (CNA). Prince Albert II

null / Alex Studio/Shutterstock. Vatican City, Nov 25, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). A new Vatican document defends marriage as a monogamous relationship amid the

Conductor Riccardo Muti has been awarded the 2025 Ratzinger Prize. / Credit: Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy Vatican City, Nov 25, 2025 / 08:00 am

Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims from Latvia on Nov. 24, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 24, 2025 /

null / Credit: itakdalee/Shutterstock EWTN News, Nov 24, 2025 / 16:08 pm (CNA). Three German bishops have publicly distanced themselves from the German Bishops’ Conference’s

Pope Leo XIV receives Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople at the Vatican on May 30, 2025. / Vatican Media Vatican City, Nov 23, 2025 / 12:29

Aidan Gallagher, director of EWTN Ireland, speaks at the premiere of “The Kingship of Christ” at the Vatican on Nov. 18, 2025. / Credit: Daniel

The Chapel of Christ the King at Christendom College in Front Royal, Virginia. / Credit: Courtesy of Christendom College Dublin, Ireland, Nov 23, 2025 /

Pope Leo XIV holds an audience with the Roman Rota on Nov. 21, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Nov

null / Credit: Courtesy of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles Dublin, Ireland, Nov 22, 2025 / 13:00 pm (CNA). Marthe de Noaillat, called

The Holy Father in a new Italian-language book states that faith “unites us beyond our personalities, our cultural and geographical origins.” / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN

Pope Leo XIV meets with the Augustinian nuns of Montefalco on Nov. 20, 2025, in Italy. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 22,

Kevin Duffy’’s analysis of ONS conceptions data over the 10 years to 2022 illustrates that approximately half of women who have not had a child

A close-up of the tomb of St. Ceclia at the basilica dedicated to her in Trastevere, Rome, Italy. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Vatican City, Nov

A cross stands in Montse Sole Historical Park in memorial of the victims of the massacres carried out there by Nazis in 1944. / Credit:

Archbishop Dermot Farrell of the Dublin Archdiocese holds up the decree on Nov. 14, 2025, that Pope Leo XIV sent him granting his request that

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota, meets Pope Leo XIV, along with a delegation of Ukrainian mothers, wives, and teenagers, at the Vatican on Nov. 21,

Pope Leo XIV meets with the leadership and staff of Caritas Internationalis, the Church’s global charitable network operating in more than 200 countries, on Nov.