Pope Leo XIV meets with U.S. Vice President JD Vance on May 19, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, May 19, 2025 / 13:01 pm (CNA). White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has confirmed that U.S. President Donald Trump invited Pope Leo XIV to the White House. The invitation was made in a […]

Pope Leo XIV greets crowds in St. Peter’s Square from the popemobile on Sunday, May 18, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA ACI Prensa Staff, May 19, 2025 / 12:03 pm (CNA). From a portable throne carried on the shoulders of attendants to state-of-the-art electric cars, the pope’s means of […]

null / Credit: KieferPix/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 19, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA). Catholic Charities in Youngstown, Ohio, will join a new pilot study, Lifting Moms Out of Poverty (LMOP), a program developed by Catholic Charities USA, in a bid to offer aid to mothers with small […]

U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, seated in places of honor usually reserved for heads of state, meet with Pope Leo XIV in the papal library on May 19, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, May 19, 2025 / 06:52 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV held a private meeting with […]

Archbishop Charles C. Thompson elevates the Eucharist during the Opening Mass at St. John the Evangelist Church in Indianapolis, marking the official launch of the St. Katharine Drexel Route. May 18, 2025. / Credit: Jeffrey Bruno CNA Newsroom, May 18, 2025 / 18:00 pm (CNA). The 2025 National […]

Photograph of Pope Leo XIV released by the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Newsroom, May 18, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA). Follow our live coverage as Pope Leo XIV, first U.S.-born pope in history, begins his pontificate: Experience history in the making with former Cardinal Robert Prevost.

Pope Leo XIV acknowledged divisions among the faithful with a call for fraternal communion and unity in the homily at his inaugural Mass in St. Peter’s Square on May 18, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican City, May 18, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV delivered the following homily at […]

Pope Leo XIV waves during the inaugural Mass of his pontificate, held in St. Peter’s Square on May 18, 2025. He stands in front of a Flemish tapestry depicting the dialogue between Jesus and Peter after the miraculous catch of fish. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, May 18, 2025 / 06:58 am […]

Melanie McClanahan, a Rosary Team volunteer, with a resident. / Credit: Mike Jensen CNA Staff, May 18, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Teresa Rodriguez was working as a hospice nurse, seeing patients at a memory care facility, when she realized that her patients were not being offered any spiritual […]

The Blessed Sacrament is held aloft during a Eucharistic procession through Washington, D.C., Saturday, May 17, 2025. / Credit: Tessa Gervasini/CNA Washington D.C., May 17, 2025 / 17:30 pm (CNA). The Catholic Information Center (CIC) on Saturday held its third annual Eucharistic procession through […]

Marchers participate in the grand procession of the Jubilee of Confraternities in Rome, Saturday, May 17, 2025 / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA CNA Staff, May 17, 2025 / 16:45 pm (CNA). Thousands of the faithful took to the streets of Rome on Saturday to take part in elaborate and beautiful […]

Vice President JD Vance shares a moment of laughter with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, during their meeting at the Vatican on Holy Saturday, April 19, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media/screenshot Vatican City, May 17, 2025 / 15:00 pm (CNA). U.S. Vice President JD Vance and […]

Young students cheer during an assembly at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington, Virginia, Saturday, May 10, 2025. / Credit: EWTN News CNA Staff, May 17, 2025 / 11:00 am (CNA). For Catholic students in the United States, the election of Pope Leo XIV as the first American pope on May 8 […]

Pope Leo XIV waves at a massive, jubilant crowd gathered on St. Peter’s Square for the Regina Caeli on Sunday, May 11, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA CNA Staff, May 17, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA). The Vatican’s sacred music school is seeking to teach Catholics worldwide how to sing ancient […]

Pope Leo XIV gives a blessing during a meeting with participants in the Jubilee of Eastern Churches on May 14, 2025, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, May 17, 2025 / 09:42 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV urged members of the Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice […]