In anticipation of the celebration Oct. 19 of World Mission Sunday, the Vatican's missionary news agency shared statistics about the Catholic population, church personnel and the works they are engaged in.| Catholic Review
The U.S. Catholic bishops have appointed veteran journalist Carol Glatz to head up their Rome-based news bureau, succeeding Cindy Wooden, another longtime journalist.| Catholic Review
Welcoming a group of Holy Year pilgrims from Russia, Pope Leo XIV did not mention their country's war on Ukraine, but he prayed that the pilgrims would let "the fire of Christian love" be kindled in their lives so it would warm "even the coldest and hardest of hearts."| Catholic Review
Pope Leo XIV traveled 23 miles by car to board the "Bel Espoir" sailboat and speak to the crew about peacemaking.| Catholic Review
The official state visit of Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla to Pope Leo XIV and the Vatican will focus on ecumenism and ecology, Vatican officials said Oct. 17.| Catholic Review
"Dilexi Te" manifests both Pope Leo's recognition that we need to grow in unity and subtly illustrates a means to bring such unity to a fractured church, something he has spoken of from the earliest days of his pontificate.| Catholic Review
