Charles Collins

Leo XIV signed his first encyclical on Friday, May 15, exactly 135 years to the day after his predecessor and namesake, Leo XIII, signed his seminal social encyclical. He is looking at our Artificial Intelligence future.

Amid allegations that thousands of financial records were stolen from the Diocese of Las Cruces, a New Mexico court has dismissed a civil lawsuit against a former diocesan employee accused of distributing them.

Sometimes, when the pope says something, it is news for non-Catholics. The problem is that most people working in the news industry aren’t very religious, so they don’t really know how to talk about it.

Although there has been a lot of chatter about Maria Montserrat Alvarado’s appointment due to the conservatism of both EWTN and Becket, little attention is being paid to the current situation affecting the Vatican’s communications offices.

Pope Leo XIV presides over a Mass marking the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi at Plaza de Cibeles in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, June 7, 2026, on the second day of his seven-day apostolic visit to mainland Spain and the Canary Islands. (Credit: Manu Fernandez/AP.)

Red tape at the local level is keeping people from the sacraments, especially the ones that are supposed to draw people in..

Pope Leo XIV waves as he leaves Pavia’s Cathedral, northern Italy, Saturday, June 20, 2026. (Credit: Antonio Calanni/AP.)

On Saturday, Pope Leo XIV brought an end to the second extraordinary consistory of his pontificate. The meeting of cardinals was not very exciting, which might have been the point.

Pope Leo XIV meets with U.S. Ambassador to to the Holy See Brian Burch and his wife, Sara, and their children, in the ambassador’s residence in Rome, Italy, on July 4, 2026. (Credit: U.S. State Department.)

I almost died three years ago after suffering a severe cerebral hemorrhage stroke: As England once again debates legalizing assisted suicide, I know from experience there is no dignity in dying.