Church of the Transfiguration

The mother of a 10-year-old girl killed during a mass shooting at a Catholic church in Minneapolis remembered her Sunday as a fierce, curious and funny child who “didn’t water herself down.”

Arab and Islamic nations convene an emergency meeting in Qatar following Israel’s airstrike last week targeting Hamas leaders in Doha.

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Pope Leo XIV on Sunday honored hundreds of Christians who have been killed for their faith in the 21st century, praising their courage and lamenting that their numbers were growing in many parts of the world.

The Chicago suburb where Pope Leo XIV grew up marked his 70th birthday Sunday with gospel music and a balloon release outside his boyhood home.

Hundreds of Filipino protesters joined a Mass at a historic Catholic shrine to condemn the corruption of flood control projects worth billions of pesos, the country’s biggest corruption scandal in over a decade.

Young temporarily professed religious sisters, brothers, and priests have been called to experience and embody hope through the charism of their congregations. These sentiments were expressed by organisers of a recent national workshop for young male and female religious persons held over the weekend, in Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe. The gathering encouraged participants to live lives marked by transparency, accountability, and moral integrity.

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In the heart of the jungle in Cuzco, Peru, Sr. Giovanna Llerena Alfaro, a Dominican Missionary of the Rosary, walks alongside the Indigenous communities of Bajo Urubamba, promoting an Indigenous Church and a form of evangelization that arises from contemplation.

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Archbishop Piero Pioppo is appointed the new Apostolic Nuncio to Spain and the Principality of Andorra.

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With sorrow and shock over the recent murder of a 42-year-old man shot dead while on pilgrimage in the Archdiocese of Lahore, leading experts in Pakistan are calling for serious and effective social reforms, especially in education, to combat the phenomenon.

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Pope Leo XIV meets with Augustinians at the conclusion of their General Chapter and invites them to place love at the centre of their religious life.

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