Ravaging the Earth and creating environmental injustices are not what God had in mind when he entrusted creation to humanity, Pope Leo XIV said.
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Almost four years after Pope Francis opened the Catholic Church’s path toward synodality — a term many in the church had never heard before — his successor has thrown his support behind the last leg of the church’s’ synodal journey.
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Daniel E. Garcia of Monterey, California, as the bishop of Austin, Texas.
An Idaho pastor told OSV News his parish turned to prayer and eucharistic adoration following a deliberate and deadly attack on first responders.
Amid Russia’s war on Ukraine, the faith of Ukrainians is being “sorely tested,” but God “will have the last word, and life will conquer death,” said Pope Leo XIV.
Miracle Melodies is a group of Cistercian seniors that leads praise and worship each Monday for students at the Notre Dame School of Dallas, a school serving students with developmental disabilities.
Archbishops around the world can provide by their example the fraternity and unity in diversity the entire Catholic Church needs today, Pope Leo XIV said.
Over four days, from June 26 to 29, the French Shrine of the Sacred Heart of Paray-le-Monial was concluding celebrations of the 350th anniversary of the apparitions of Jesus to French Visitation religious sister, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, showing his heart to her.
“I’m the kind of person where you stand on the shoulders of your ancestors,” Bishop Dunne Catholic School’s Gaby Gonzalez said the morning of her graduation two weeks ago. Of the dozens of relatives who preceded her at the high school during the past 60 years, no shoulders are broader than those of her paternal grandfather.
This is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s homily on June 27, 2025, the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.