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 filled them with…
I write this shortly before the 4th Sunday of Easter in the Vetus Ordo calendar, which is also the day when our new Pope will celebrate Mass (they call it a “Eucharistic Celebration”) for “the Beginning of the Pontificate of the Bishop of Rome Leo XIV” (18 May 2025). In the older traditional Missal there…
Photograph of Pope Leo XIV released by the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Newsroom, May 17, 2025 / 08:35 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. Read More
A view of the baldacchino underneath the central dome of St. Peter’s Basilica. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Vatican City, May 17, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). The Mass for the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate will be celebrated on Sunday, May 18, at 10 a.m. Rome time in St. Peter’s Square, a liturgical event…
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 Foundation…
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 Gregorian chant as a…
June is now ubiquitously proclaimed “Pride Month,” a season when our secular culture brazenly celebrates sins that cry to Heaven for vengeance. In cities like Cincinnati – historically conservative and Catholic – tens of thousands flock to Pride parades in a blatant public celebration of vice. Last year’s Cincinnati Pride Parade drew an estimated 175,000…
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Pope Leo XIV speaks to cardinals in Rome on May 10, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI MENA, May 17, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). Eastern Christian communities erupted in celebration at the election of the Catholic Church’s new pontiff on May 8, with joyful speeches and church bells ringing. However, many wondered about Pope…
Pope Leo XIV smiles as a jubilant crowd joins in prayer on Sunday, May 11, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Vatican City, May 17, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). The Mass for the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate will be celebrated on Sunday, May 18, at 10 a.m. Rome time in St. Peter’s Square….
