Over the course of two days, the Pope will meet with members of the College of Cardinals in order to foster shared discernment and to offer support and counsel to the Holy Father in carrying out his responsibility for the governance of the universal Church. www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Ahead of this week’s extraordinary consistory at the Vatican, I went to Oxford to interview ‘don’t call me Cardinal’ Timothy Radcliffe: on women’s ordination, on ministering to those with HIV, what the Pope is like and whether he voted for himself at conclave www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/6ea3425...

Pope Leo on Feast of Epiphany, and Closing of Jubilee Year: “A distorted economy tries to profit from everything. We see how the marketplace can turn human yearnings of seeking, traveling and beginning again into a mere business.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Pope Leo XIV’s election was striking but not altogether surprising. “It has been the pattern that a dynamic, pathbreaking Pope is succeeded by a more sober, deliberate ally,” Paul Elie writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/9uAbsC

Pope Leo has received Cardinal Christophe Pierre, Apostolic Nuncio to the US, in private audience today.

Lexington’s Bishop Stowe: “I lament how the Pope’s words for January 1, the World Day of Prayer for Peace, in which he reiterated the call for an “unarmed and disarming peace” were completely ignored by the US administration in pursuit of its own ill-defined goals…” cdlex.org/u-s-attacks-...

Pope Leo at Angelus: “The Incarnation demands a concrete commitment to the promotion of fraternity and communion. Through this commitment, solidarity becomes the criterion of all human relationships, calling us to strive for justice and peace, to care for the most fragile, and to defend the weak.”

Pope Leo: “With great concern, I am following the developments in Venezuela. The well-being of the beloved Venezuelan people must prevail over every other consideration and lead to overcoming violence and embarking on paths of justice and peace, guaranteeing the sovereignty of the Country…

Pope Leo is currently attending a Christmas Concert with Sistine Chapel Choir; one wonders what could possibly be on his mind amid US’ incursion of Venezuela, as he likely will address the situation at tomorrow’s Angelus address.

Popes have consistently denounced imperialism; Leo called Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “a true invasion, imperialist in nature.”

Pope Leo has the deepest love for Latin America, where he spent many years in ministry. Now, a US President a Pope who has dual citizenship (US and Peru) and a military incursion in Venezuela. At Sunday’s Angelus, Pope Leo will have his first opportunity to speak out against the actions of the US.

To be clear, Pope Leo has warned the US on 3 separate occasions against the invasion of Venezuela, and urged “dialogue” instead and further stating: “With violence, we do not win.”

Pope Leo in Dilexi Te: “Thus, in a world where the poor are increasingly numerous, we paradoxically see the growth of a wealthy elite, living in a bubble of comfort and luxury, almost in another world compared to ordinary people."

Pope Leo at Angelus: “Jesus’ heart is not indifferent to those who have no heart for their neighbor: it beats for the righteous, so that they may persevere in their dedication, as well as for the unrighteous, so that they may change their lives and find peace.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Pope Leo: “The world is not saved by sharpening swords, nor by judging, oppressing or eliminating our brothers and sisters. Rather, it is saved by tirelessly striving to understand, forgive, liberate and welcome everyone, without calculation and without fear.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

After Vespers and Te Deum, Pope Leo heads to St. Peter’s Square to end 2025 in meditation before the Nativity Scene.

Pope Leo on New Year’s Eve: “Other designs, however, today as yesterday, envelop the world. They are rather strategies aimed at conquering markets, territories, zones of influence. Armed strategies, cloaked in hypocritical discourses, ideological proclamations, false religious motives."

Pope Leo at General Audience: “The past year has certainly been marked by important events: some of them joyful…others painful, such as the passing of the late Pope Francis, and the scenarios of war that continue to convulse the planet.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Pope Leo to Mayors: Jesus’ birth “reveals the most authentic aspect of all power, which is above all responsibility and service. For any authority to express these characteristics, it is necessary to embody the virtues of humility, honesty and sharing.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Pope Leo’s pick to lead New York Catholics signals shift away from Maga ft.trib.al/CbAO5TZ

Were Jesus, Mary and Joseph refugees? In today’s Feast of the Holy Family, we read of Jesus, Mary and Joseph fleeing the murderous designs of an evil king and journeying to Egypt, a traditional refugee for Jewish people of the time, as Joan Taylor points out in her book “Boy Jesus.”

Pope Leo at Angelus: “Unfortunately, the world always has its ‘Herods,’ its myths of success at any cost, of unscrupulous power, of empty and superficial well-being, and it often pays the price in the form of loneliness, despair, divisions and conflicts.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Pope Leo bas donated three truckloads of humanitarian aid to regions of Ukraine most affected by bombing – a “small gesture,” according Cardinal Krajewski, intended to support families that are travelling along the ‘via dolorosa’ of exile in search of refuge.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Pope Leo: “The beauty of Jesus and of those who imitate his life, is also rejected. From the beginning, his magnetic force has provoked the reaction of those who struggle for power, those who are exposed by their acts of injustice because of a goodness that reveals the intentions of their hearts.”

Pope at Christmas Urbi et Orbi: “If all of us would stop accusing others and instead acknowledge our own faults, asking God for forgiveness, and if we would truly enter into the suffering of others and stand in solidarity with the weak and the oppressed, then the world would change.”

Pope Leo at Christmas Day Mass: “The Word has pitched his fragile tent among us. How, then, can we not think of the tents in Gaza, exposed for weeks to rain, wind and cold; and of those of so many other refugees and displaced persons on every continent? www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

“While humanity seeks to become ‘god’ in order to dominate others, God chooses to become man in order to free us from every form of slavery. Will this love be enough to change our history?” - Pope Leo

Keeping a tradition Pope Francis began, at the conclusion of Christmas Eve Mass Pope Leo personally carries the Child Jesus to place him in the manger at the Nativity scene in St. Peter’s Basilica.

Pope Leo on Christmas Night: “There is no room for God if there is no room for the human person. To refuse one is to refuse the other. Yet, where there is room for the human person, there is room for God.” (Full Text) www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Pope Leo on Christmas Eve: “On earth, there is no room for God if there is no room for the human person. To refuse one is to refuse the other.”

Pope Leo at Christmas Eve Mass: “While a distorted economy leads to treating people as commodities, God makes Himself like us, revealing the infinite dignity of every person. While man wants to become God to dominate over others, God wants to become man to free us from every slavery.”

Prior to Christmas Eve Mass, pope Leo heads to the Square to greet the overflow crowds. He says St. Peter’s Basilica is large but not large enough to accommodate the crowds. Leo invites them to watch Mass on the large screens, and wishes all a Merry Christmas! 🎁🎄

Leaving Castel Gandolfo, Pope Leo In Castel Gandolfo, expresses sadness over “the fact that apparently Russia has rejected the request for a Christmas truce” and renews his call to respect 24 hours of peace.

Pope Leo called Vatican employees to learn simplicity and humility from Jesus’ birth this Christmas and “to ensure, all together, that this becomes increasingly the style of the Church in all its expressions.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Pope Leo in Christmas Greetings to Curia: “We can fall into the temptation of swinging between two opposite extremes: uniformity that fails to value differences, or the exacerbation of differences and viewpoints instead of seeking communion.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Reverend James A. Misko, a priest of the Diocese of Austin, as the Bishop of Tucson. Read the full release at: https://ow.ly/bUJx50XMZnM

On heels of summoning all cardinals to Rome in January for extraordinary consistory, Pope Leo is scheduled to give traditional “Christmas Greetings” to the Roman Curia tomorrow morning from the Hall of Blessing in the Vatican.

Pope Leo: “Piety and charity, mercy and abandonment.., are important attitudes that educate the heart to encounter Christ and our brothers and sisters. They can also help us to be, for one another, a welcoming manger, a hospitable home, a sign of God’s presence.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Pope Leo: “Creation is crying. But many powerful people do not hear this cry: the wealth of the earth is in the hands of a few, very few, increasingly concentrated – unjustly – in the hands of those who often do not want to hear the groaning of the earth and the poor.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Pope Leo has summoned all Cardinals to Rome for a January 7-8 consistory. “The meeting will unfold over two days and will be marked by moments of communion and fraternity, as well as times dedicated to reflection, sharing, and prayer.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Pope Leo: “Before the holy night of Christmas, think of someone with whom you would like to make peace: it will be a more precious gift than those you can buy in the shops, because peace is a gift that is found, truly, only in the heart.” press.vatican.va/content/sala...

Pope Leo has named Msgr. Peter Dai Bui (55) as Auxiliary Bishop of Phoenix. At 4 years old, the Bishop-elect escaped Vietnam on his dad’s fishing boat along 9 siblings. He has served as a missionary in Venezuela, Colombia, and the Amazon. www.catholicsun.org/2025/12/19/p...

Pope Leo has appointed Brooklyn priest Father Manuel De Jesus Rodriguez (51) as Bishop of Palm Beach; a member of the Salesians, Rodriguez is a native of the Dominican Republic and became a US citizen in 2018. He is a well-known dynamic preacher whose writings have appeared in America Magazine.

Pope Leo: “At the center of any work dynamic, there should be neither capital, nor market laws, nor profit, but rather the individual, the family, and their well-being, to which everything else is secondary.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Hicks: “I was really formed by the Latino Church and I have a great heart for the Latino community. I’m proud of the statement recently put out about immigration about the necessity to make sure that we have a country that does protect our borders, and also be a country that upholds human dignity.”

In letter to Joliet, Archbishop Hicks reveals he received the call to be Archbishop of New York on December 9, the feast of St. Juan Diego, saying that it “is a reminder that sometimes God calls us to things that feel beyond us, but with grace and faith, we can answer yes.”

The Archdiocese of New York has announced today’s schedule upon the appointment of Archbishop-Designate Hicks, including an 8:30am presser, and a Mass for staff and empowerment of the chancery at 2:00pm. 8:30am presser conference to be live-streamed. Hicks is slated to be installed on February 6.

BREAKING: Pope Leo has officially named Joliet’s Bishop Ron Hicks (58) as the 11th Archbishop of New York, succeeding Cardinal Timothy Dolan. Hicks is a native Chicagoan and was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Bernardin. He has served as Auxiliary/VG to Cardinal Cupich. Story developing.

As the world awaits tomorrow’s major news from Rome, a simple yet profound image of the man about to inherit the Metropolitan See of New York: Ron Hicks (bottom right) bearing Romero’s relics at El Salvador Beatification in 2015. The photo is worth a thousand words about Hick’s heart for the poor.