Cardinal-elect Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi during an interview CNA on Friday, Oct. 18, 2024, in Rome. / Credit: EWTN News Vatican City, May 10, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). The election of Leo XIV was enthusiastically received by Caritas Internationalis, which expressed its support for the new pontiff and reaffirmed its readiness to walk alongside the…
I begin with the following proposition. It is one which, among committed Christians certainly, may be taken as a given, as axiomatic. Not a statement of fact, mind you, as in the sum of two plus two will always be four. It is instead a statement of value, the certainty of which is hardly a…
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Cardinal Rainer Woelki arrives at the Vatican on March 5, 2013. / InterMirifica.net CNA Newsroom, May 10, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki has candidly confessed he “didn’t expect” the election of Pope Leo XIV, praising the new pontiff’s “warmth and humanity” while expressing hope for theological clarity concerning synodality. Speaking to…
St. Augustine is the patron saint of brewers, printers, theologians, and a number of cities and dioceses. / Credit: Attributed to Gerard Seghers, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, May 10, 2025 / 05:00 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV, elected on Thursday, is the first pope from the Order of St. Augustine (OSA), also…
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null / Credit: Kelleher photography/Shutterstock CNA Staff, May 9, 2025 / 17:58 pm (CNA). Before he was pope, he was a math major at a Catholic liberal arts university in Pennsylvania. Pope Leo XIV is the 267th head of the Catholic Church. He’s also a class of ‘77 alumnus of Villanova University, which is run…
Americans gather in St. Peter’s Square on May 8, 2025, to celebrate the election of Pope Leo XIV, the first pontiff from the United States. / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA Vatican City, May 9, 2025 / 18:28 pm (CNA). Americans gathered in St. Peter’s Square on May 8 to celebrate the election of Pope Leo XIV,…
