Jesuit priest Fr. Melwin J. Pinto, SJ, who served Vatican Radio for many years, passed away at the age of 63 due to cardiac complications in Mangaluru, India, on April 10th.

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Archbishop Amel Nona has been elected as the new Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church on Sunday, April 12, following the resignation of his predecessor, Cardinal Luis Raphaël Sako, announced on March 10. The new leader has chosen the name Paul III and will request ecclesiastical communion from the Pope.

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WASHINGTON – Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a brief response to a social media post by President Trump on Sunday evening. 

“I am disheartened that the President chose to write such disparaging words about the Holy Father. Pope Leo is not his rival; nor is the Pope a politician. He is the Vicar of Christ who speaks from the truth of the Gospel and for the care of souls.”

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US and Iranian delegations have failed to reach a deal following lengthy peace talks in Islamabad.

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The philosopher and Augustine scholar James K. A. Smith speaks to Vatican News about St Augustine’s “deep sense of interiority and subjectivity”, and the way his political writings are used and abused today.

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Pope Leo XIV will travel to Cameroon from 15 to 18 April as a “messenger of peace” for the faithful. For decades humanitarian organizations like Catholic Relief Services have helped turn bring that message to life.

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Following the recitation of the Regina Caeli, Pope Leo recalls the three years since the beginning of the conflict in Sudan, renewing his appeal to stop “this fratricidal war as soon as possible.” He then offers wishes of peace to the Eastern Churches that celebrate Easter according to the Julian calendar and urges people not to forget the Ukrainian and Lebanese peoples. Finally, he asks for prayers for his apostolic journey to Africa that starts tomorrow April 13.

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On Divine Mercy Sunday, Pope Leo XIV highlights the Eucharist as essential for sustaining faith.

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During his Vigil Mass for Peace, Cardinal Robert McElroy, Archbishop of Washington D.C., says that under Catholic just war principles, the initiation of the war in Iran and any continuation of it is "morally illegitimate" and calls on faithful to "pray that the ceasefire holds and that it leads to a substantive foundation for the emergence of peace in the Middle East."

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Pope Leo XIV calls upon billions of people around the world to engage in a shared commitment against the “madness of war,” those who, in this dramatic hour of history, do not surrender to the idolatry of money and power.

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