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The Pope sings of love and the purity of the soul in the Assumption of Mary

León XIV has returned to Castelgandolfo to celebrate the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The glorification of Mary in soul and body teaches us that our true beauty lies in showing, even in our flesh, the signs of love that has no end, he stated in a beautiful homily.
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Francisco Otamendi

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Archbishop Caccia, Pope's Nuncio to the United States, and Holy Week in Rome

Pope Leo XIV today appointed Archbishop Gabriele Giordano Caccia, until now Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations in New York, as the new Apostolic Nuncio to the United States. In addition, the Holy Week celebrations in Rome are already public.

Omnes Editorial Staff

7 Mar 2026

Pope holding child in Rome, March 2026.

The Church is human and divine, Pope teaches at the Audience

Pope Leo XIV explained in this Wednesday's Lenten Audience what the Church is, its human dimension and its divine dimension. 

Francisco Otamendi

4 Mar 2026

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Vatican releases long-awaited document on AI and Transhumanism

In the face of utopias of unlimited perfection or narratives of human substitution, the Church proposes to preserve the constitutive tensions of experience-body and spirit, male and female, individual and community, finitude and infinity-and its orientation to Christ.

Javier García Herrería

4 Mar 2026

Pope Leo XIV with Bishop Varden.

These meditations by Varden caused Pope Leo XIV to reflect on

While old cathedral halls are turned into miniature golf courses, and young people sing that life is an open wound, time is hungry for hope, and “signs of new religious awareness among young people” are emerging, searching for roots. This is how Bishop Erik Varden expressed himself in the Exercises of the Pope and the Roman Curia.

Francisco Otamendi

3 Mar 2026

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Leo XIV calls to “stop the spiral of violence in the Middle East and Iran”.”

“Faced with the possibility of a tragedy of enormous proportions, in the Middle East and in Iran,” Pope Leo XIV launched this Sunday “a fervent appeal to the parties involved to assume the moral responsibility to stop the spiral of violence before it becomes an irreparable abyss.”.

Omnes Editorial Staff

1 Mar 2026

Papa greets a baby.

Papal boost to the Pontifical Academy for Life: it will have collaborators

Pope Leo XIV has approved the new Statutes of the Pontifical Academy for Life. will have sponsors, collaborators and supporters.

Francisco Otamendi

1 Mar 2026

The Pope, at the Spiritual Exercises preached by Msgr. Erik Varden.

God is not like calling 112. Varden's Messages at the Pope's Exercises (10)

In his meditations for the Lenten Spiritual Exercises to the Pope and the Roman Curia, the Trappist monk and Bishop of Trondheim (Norway), Bishop Erik Varden, pointed out, for example, that God is not an emergency service like calling 112, but rather an insurance policy.

Francisco Otamendi

24 Feb 2026

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Pope urges not to use AI for homilies or seek “likes” on TikTok

Eope Leo XIV has asked priests to not to use artificial intelligence (AI) to write his homilies, nor to seek “likes” on social media platforms such as TikTok, in a meeting with priests of the diocese of Rome.  

OSV / Omnes

23 Feb 2026

Women with children in a Kiev hospital after Russian missile attacks in 2024.

Pope's strong call for cease-fire 4 years after “war against Ukraine”

After 4 years of “war against Ukraine”, Pope Leo XIV renewed his “appeal to silence the weapons, to reach a cease-fire without delay and to strengthen dialogue in order to open the way to peace”. At the Angelus, he invited Lent to silence and to “turn off televisions, radios and smartphones for a while”.

OSV / Omnes

22 Feb 2026

The Pope imposes ashes on a woman.

The “countercultural” repentance preached by the Pope

Under the Roman pines of the Aventine Hill, Pope Leo XIV led a solemn penitential procession on Feb. 18 to Rome's oldest surviving basilica. And he marked the first Ash Wednesday of his pontificate with a call for “counter-cultural” repentance for the sins of individuals, institutions and the Church itself.

OSV / Omnes

19 Feb 2026

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Holywins: una alternativa alegre y católica a Halloween

Omnes Editorial Staff

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¿Cuál es el pensamiento político de san Agustín?

Santiago Leyra Curiá

Centenary of Our Lady of Fatima, 2017

Miracles of the Virgin Mary and nature: 'the sun danced', snowfalls, flowers…

Francisco Otamendi

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