4+ hour, 53+ min ago  (227+ words) " Share this Page News of the Diocese WASHINGTON " Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), issued a statement today welcoming Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of…...

8+ hour, 56+ min ago  (370+ words) Pope Leo on Monday issued the clearest apology yet from a pontiff for the Catholic Church's role in slavery, acknowledging both its delay in condemning the practice and its historic involvement in legitimizing it. In a key passage of his…...

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11+ hour, 1+ min ago  (1433+ words) I hope you are enjoying the holiday. Of course, it's a working day for us, holidays usually are, one way or another. Today saw the release of Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas. The pope's treatise on human dignity…...

2+ hour, 56+ min ago  (856+ words) Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical was billed as being on artificial intelligence, but what it delivered alongside that was an in-depth treatise on the American Pope's assessment of the state of the world. "We must, then, avoid the "Babel syndrome…...

6+ hour, 4+ min ago  (1157+ words) (Alessandra Tarantino | AP) Pope Leo XIV arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square in May. He has issued his first encyclical, a timely tome on artificial intelligence. Chicago White Sox fans will be happy to know that…...

7+ hour, 9+ min ago  (710+ words) Pope Leo XIV has issued a formal apology over the Catholic Church's historical role in slavery, acknowledging that the Vatican helped legitimise the practice for centuries and failed to explicitly condemn the trans-Atlantic slave trade, which he described as "a…...

9+ hour, 52+ min ago  (591+ words) May 25, 2026 By Courtney Mares OSV News Filed Under: AI, Feature, News, Vatican, World News VATICAN CITY (OSV News) " Pope Leo XIV called for vigilance as he spoke at the Vatican press conference May 25 to present his first encyclical on artificial…...

3+ hour, 24+ min ago  (359+ words) Pope Leo XIV advanced the sainthood causes of one woman and five men, including the Maronite patriarch who played an integral role in the establishment of modern-day Lebanon. During a May 22 meeting with Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Dicastery…...

9+ hour, 36+ min ago  (909+ words) (OSV News) "Just as it did in the industrial age, the Catholic Church is called to discern the rapidly evolving advances of digital technology in the light of the Gospel, said Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state. Addressing participants,…...