Peace is ‘a gift more valuable than those you can buy in stores,’ the Holy Father told young people, adding that peace ‘transforms us as witnesses of Jesus, the Redeemer of the world.’

Manuel de Jesus Rodriguez has been a staunch advocate for migrants, which make up most of his 17,000 congregants at the Our Lady of Sorrows church — the largest parish in the Diocese of Brooklyn, which also oversees churches in Queens.

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday made his most important U.S. appointment to date, naming a fellow Chicagoan as the next archbishop of New York to lead one of the biggest U.S. archdioceses as it navigates relations with the Trump administration and its immigration crackdown.

Leo emphasizes that the small book by Brother Lawrence places at the center not merely the experience but a true 'practice' of the presence of God, lived in everyday life.

Pope Leo XIV named Bishop Ronald A. Hicks of Joliet as New York's new archbishop, ending Cardinal Timothy Dolan's 16-year tenure.

As the “best outfit of 2025,” the magazine cites his first appearance as pope on May 8 in the central loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica, wearing a red satin mozzetta and a wine-colored stole, embroidered in gold and with a pectoral cross held by a golden silk cord.

As archbishop, Ronald Hicks will lead the second-largest U.S. archdiocese.

Pope Leo XIV offered prayers and condemned "antisemitic violence" following a shooting at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney killed 15 victims.

Overall, the document reflects an effort to provide greater legal certainty, transparency, and procedural order to labor relations within the Vatican, in line with the recent reform initiated by Pope Leo XIV to strengthen the protection of workers and promote a culture of conciliation before resorting to legal conflict.

Bishop Ronald Hicks, the current bishop of Joliet, Illinois, replaces the retiring Cardinal Timothy Dolan as archbishop of New York.

The miracle attributed to Shaw’s intercession is the inexplicable healing of a 5-year-old boy who, in June 2015, suffered a very serious head injury from being kicked by a horse.