Popes are not like presidents who are temporarily replaced by their vice presidents during periods of incapacitation. Instead, the government of the Church awaits the Pope’s recovery or his passing.

Even as he recovers at Gemelli Hospital, Pope Leo XIV remains relentless in his pursuit of peace. The Vatican says he spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The conversation apparently ...

Chaldean Catholics from around the world gathered at the Vatican this week to celebrate their patriarch’s communion with the successor of Peter. For the faithful from Iraq and across the diaspora, the ...

Catholics around the world are praying for Pope Leo’s health in the wake of his cancer diagnosis. EWTN's Mark Irons speaks to local Catholics in Virginia who are praying for the Holy Father’s recovery ...

After another day of recovery on Thursday, Pope Leo has resumed work from the hospital. The Vatican says he met with Archbishop Paolo Rudelli, Substitute of the Secretariat of State, and once again ...

A couple hundred Church leaders joined experts and married couples this week in Rome to honor the 10th anniversary of an apostolic exhortation on the family by the late Pope Francis. The gathering ...

The Diocese of Jaén in Spain has opened a special Jubilee Year marking 800 years since the traditional apparition of Our Lady of la Cabeza — beginning 14 months of pilgrimage, prayer, conversion and ...

Chicago and Chiclayo, Pope Leo XIV’s birthplace and the Peruvian diocese where he served as bishop, are praying for his health. As Catholic's worldwide pray for the pope’s recovery, the faithful in ...

Oct. 14, 2026 : Pope Leo XIV has been diagnosed with lung cancer and has had surgery to remove a lower lobe of his right lung, the Vatican has said in a medical bulletin. The 71-year-old underwent a ...

Forty years after her death, in 1622, Teresa was canonized by Pope Gregory XV. On 27 September 1970 Pope Paul VI proclaimed Teresa the first female Doctor of the Church in recognition of her centuries ...

The gathering on Amoris Laetitia concluded with a concelebrated Mass in St. Peter's Square. The pope was expected to attend, but after his surgery was announced, it was reported that Pope Leo XIV ...

EWTN explores how the Church preserves and transmits its sacred musical tradition, from the formation of new musicians to the religious communities that have kept it alive for centuries.