Pope Leo XIV on Thursday met with a U.S. ecumenical group, led by Cardinal Joseph Tobin and Greek Orthodox Archbishop Elpidophoros of America.

Pope Leo XIV has called Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa as the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem enters Gaza to visit the Holy Family Catholic Church after the Israeli strike that killed 3 people and injured several others taking refuge there.

Following a strike against the only Catholic Church in Gaza, which left at least two dead on July 17, Pope Leo XIV issued a call for an immediate ceasefire.

After the tank shell fired 'by mistake' that caused the death of three people from the Gaza parish and injured the parish priest Father Gabriel and others, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu

Pope Leo XIV is still keeping his cards close to his cassock, but people who have observed him over the years are helping fill in the picture of what is likely to shape his pontificate, writes Michael Sean Winters.

By Kielce Gussie The July issue of the Italian magazine Piazza San Pietro was dedicated to the Jubilee of Youth and in it, Pope Leo XIV responded to Zaira, a young mother of three who wrote him a letter raising concerns about the right to peace.

Some added excitement came with a guest appearance from Father Jeremy P. Hiers, vocations director of the Augustinian order for the East Coast. Father Hiers,