Headlines for May 01, 2025

Ordered from most to least recent.

 Cardinals hear reports on Vatican’s financial situation, discuss polarization, synodality
 US study finds no clear benefits, serious risk to gender-altering treatment for children
 Cardinals confirm: more than 120 electors will take part in conclave
 At UN tribute, diplomats recall Pope Francis’s advocacy for peace, the poor, and the unborn
 At Mass for late Pontiff, Cardinal Gambetti asks: Are we a Church of goats or sheep?
 Ukrainian man recalls 80 letters, 25 meetings with Pope Francis
 May 2025 papal prayer intention: for working conditions
 Vatican newspaper draws attention to plight of Guaraní

Want more news? Visit the Archives.

Tue10 November
Ordinary Time

Memorial of St. Leo the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church

Image for Memorial of St. Leo the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church

The Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Leo the Great (400-461), during whose pontificate the Council of Chalcedon (451) defined that Christ is one divine person with two natures, divine and human. It was a confirmation of his Epistola Dogmatica (Tomus) to the Patriarch Flavian of Constantinople.…

Learn more about this day.

November Calendar >
Subscribe to Insights...free!
News, analysis & spirituality by email twice-weekly from CatholicCulture.org.
First name:
Last name:
Email address: