The goal, he added, is to "make the rich heritage of Gregorian chant accessible to all." So far, Pope Leo XIV has not addressed ongoing debates about restrictions on use of the Tridentine Mass ...

Pope Leo XIV has signaled that creation care will be a key area of interest for him as well and a point of continuity between Leo and his predecessors on social issues, especially the environment.

The Vatican is standing up for science and standing against political efforts to undercut it.

Those ritual traces all the way back to Homer’s Odyssey, where a sneeze was treated like a divine ‘thumbs-up’, and later to Pope Gregory I’s plague-era decree, when “God bless you ...