World May 25 Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Vatican's role in legitimizing slavery Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology on Monday for the Holy See's role in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the Vatican’s record a “wound in Christian memory.”…
World May 25 Pope calls for robust regulation of AI in manifesto that ponders the future of humanity The pope's first encyclical has been eagerly awaited ever since the first U.S.-born pope announced that he considered AI to be the biggest challenge facing humanity today.
World May 18 Pope Leo XIV to launch his first encylical, a document on artificial intelligence, with Anthropic's co-founder The presence of Anthropic's Christopher Olah at the Vatican is significant, and suggests that the U.S. pope's position on AI will become a new flashpoint with the Trump administration.
World May 14 Pope Leo condemns use of AI warfare and the 'spiral of annihilation' it brings Leo’s speech at Rome’s La Sapienza University marked the first time a pope has visited the campus since Pope Benedict XVI called off a planned speech there in 2008 in the face of protests from faculty and students.
World May 07 WATCH: At Vatican, Rubio discusses efforts to achieve Middle East peace Secretary State Marco Rubio met with Pope Leo and then Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin in a visit that lasted 2½ hours.
World May 06 Pope will inaugurate Barcelona's Sagrada Familia tower and meet with migrants in June trip to Spain Pope Leo XIV will inaugurate the soaring central tower of Barcelona’s famed Sagrada Familia basilica when he visits Spain next month in a weeklong trip that will also take him to a migrant reception center in the Canary Islands, the…
World Apr 27 Pope Leo XIV prays with Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally in historic encounter The encounter between Christianity's two most famous religious figures would have been unthinkable just a few years ago, given the divisions between their two churches over women's ordination in general and Mullally's appointment in particular.
World Apr 23 Pope urges U.S. and Iran to resume peace talks, condemns capital punishment Pope Leo XIV urged the United States and Iran to return to talks to end the war Thursday and condemned capital punishment, in a wide-ranging press conference en route home from his trip to Africa.
World Apr 23 Pope wraps up an Africa visit for the history books with a Mass in Equatorial Guinea Leo departed for Rome after a farewell ceremony at the Malabo airport, ending an 11-day, four-nation voyage that took him from Algeria in the north of Africa to Angola in the south and Cameroon in between.
World Apr 22 Pope Leo calls for better prison conditions during Equatorial Guinea visit at end of Africa tour Leo’s stop, at the end of his four-nation African tour, took on added significance after it emerged that Equatorial Guinea was one of several African nations that have been paid millions of dollars in controversial deals with the Trump administration to receive…