October 21, 2025

Pope Leo XIV is seen in a video clip meeting with members of the board of Ending Clergy Abuse, a coalition of survivors and human rights advocates working to end clergy abuse, enforce accountability and promote justice and truth.

Pope Leo meets with coalition of survivors of clergy abuse

OSV News October 21, 2025

Pope Leo XIV met with a coalition of survivors of abuse and victims’ advocates for the first time at the Vatican Oct. 20.

Embrace God’s Plan

Melanie Rigney October 21, 2025

Reflect He wanted to reunite Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians, and became a Capuchin friar as a step toward that desire. But Leopold Mandić’s health issues and mild personality led him down a different path: forty-eight years of hearing ...

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