Pope Leo XIV has issued a powerful plea for peace in his final general audience before entering his summer retreat, highlighting the volatile situations unfolding in Iran, Israel, and Palestine. Addressing a large crowd in St Peter’s Square on Wednesday, the Pope called for humility and dialogue over hostility and retaliation. “Let us reject arrogance…
The Catholic Church on Sunday says the selection process of a Pope, is usually done all under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Rev. Fr. Anthony Thompson, the priest in charge of Saints Peter and Paul Parish, Tedi, Ojo, Lagos, gave the clarification during the celebration of the Feast of Pentecost. The News Agency of…
Two clerics, Prof. Amidu Sanni, Chief Imam, Lagos State University, and Pastor Charles Ighele of the Holy Spirit Mission Church, Ikeja, have described President Ahmed Bola Tinubu’s presence at Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration mass as a demonstration of religious tolerance. The clerics spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos. NAN…
Pope Leo XIV will take questions from international pressmen at a news conference on Monday. The Pope is expected to address several hundred journalists who have been reporting from the Vatican since the death of his predecessor, Pope Francis, last month. The new pontiff, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago, was elected on Thursday…
Pope Leo’s grand inaugural mass is planned for Sunday next week in St. Peter’s Square. Leaders and representatives from all over the world are expected to attend. Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic convert, is expected to attend remotely from the United States, the new pope’s native country. Leo made his first remarks as pope…
Pope Leo XIV will appear in public again this Sunday in St. Peter’s Square. From the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, the first pontiff from the United States, former Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, will recite his first Sunday mid-day Regina Coeli prayer as leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics. Tens of thousands of people…
In his first mass as new Pope on Friday, Leo XIV warned that losing one’s faith can have “dramatic side effects.” These include finding that “the meaning of life is lost, mercy is forgotten, human dignity is violated in the most dramatic ways “The crisis of the family and many other wounds from which our…
King Charles III has joined world and religious leaders in congratulating the new Pope Leo XIV on the pontiff’s first full day as leader of the Catholic Church. The first ever American pope’s election has drawn good wishes from U.S. President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer. The 267th pope’s first public appearance…
Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV,on Friday presided over the first large mass following his election. The new pontiff was joined by cardinals in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, a day after he was chosen on Thursday as the successor to pope Francis. The U.S.-born cleric, who also has a Peruvian citizenship, entered…
The new Pope’s choice of name signals he will continue the work of his predecessor, “institutionalising” Francis’s reforms, experts have said. Pope Leo XIV, the first American head of the Catholic Church, emerged on to the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica in front of a packed St Peter’s Square on Thursday evening. The election of…
