In just a few days, Pope Leo XIV will land in Barcelona for the second leg of a historic trip to Spain, scheduled for June 6–12. Bishop Xabier Gómez of Sant Feliu de Llobregat, which lies west of Barcelona, has been in his own words “blessed” to be designated to accompany the Holy Father during…

An independent, civilian-led fact-finding body has been launched in the Philippines to uncover new evidence and details about the killings carried out during former President Rodrigo Duterteʼs drug war. Cardinal Pablo Virgilio S. David, former president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines and bishop of Kalookan, serves as adviser to the Philippine Truth…

A French-American priest is being hailed as a hero after springing into action just outside St. Joseph Shrine in Detroit this week. Rev. Canon Jean-Baptiste Commins was in the shrine parking lot Monday night when he heard a loud crash and the squealing of tires just down the road. He ran to the street just…

Juan Vicente Boo, the Vatican correspondent for the Spanish newspaper ABC for 23 years, says the current pontiff is, among the popes of the last five centuries, the one who “knows Spain best,” as it is a country he visited on nearly 50 occasions before becoming pope. The first of his trips to Spain dates…