Courtney Mares

A video shared by one pilgrim showed the pope’s brother John Prevost stepping out of the black car along with Pope Leo, to the surprise of visitors who had come to the shrine without expecting a papal visit.

When Jack Lebon, 15, returns to his Texas high school in the fall, he will be able to share a summer experience few can match: a handshake with Pope Leo XIV.

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy — When Jack Lebon, 15, returns to his Texas high school in the fall, he will be able to share a summer experience few can match: a handshake with Pope Leo XIV. He is one of 140 young missionaries from across the globe taking part in Regnum Christi’s various faith formation programs […]

Andrea Bocelli performs during the World Meeting on Human Fraternity in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican June 10, 2023. Bocelli will sing for Pope Leo XIV with a choir of 160 children from the Holy Land, Uganda and Italy in the Vatican Gardens in Castel Gandolfo on July 29, 2026, in a special performance organized by the Andrea Bocelli Foundation. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli performs during "Grace for the World," the concert in St. Peter's Square concluding the World Meeting on Human Fraternity at the Vatican Sept. 13, 2025. (CNS/Lola Gomez)

The Vatican announced July 25, 2026, that Pope Leo XIV named Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco and Bishop Edward M. Lohse of Kalamazoo, Mich., to the Vatican's highest court, the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, overseeing the judicial system and appeals in canon law cases. The two prelates are pictured in file photo. (OSV News photo/courtesy Archdiocese of San Francisco/Diocese of Diocese of Erie)

ROME (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV has named two American bishops as members of the Vatican's highest court, the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura. The bishops, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco and Bishop Edward M. Lohse of Kalamazoo, Michigan, both hold doctorates in canon law.

Pope Leo XIV greets young people after presiding over a prayer vigil with hundreds of thousands of young people in Rome's Tor Vergata neighborhood Aug. 2, 2025. The vigil was part of the Jubilee of Youth celebrations. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

The pontiff pointed to the example of St. Carlo Acutis, encouraging young people never to lose the 'missionary zeal'

Pope Leo XIV said the conscience of just one person can "be worth the entire world" when it comes to preventing a nuclear catastrophe, in a new book foreword that also quotes an unpublished Bob Dylan song about the atomic bomb.