On 30 June 2026, Pope Leo XIV appointed Sister Alessandra Smerilli, F.M.A., as Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting...
Sister Alessandra Smerilli appointed as the new Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
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New WUCWO Ecclesiastical Assistant: Monsignor Melchor José Sánchez de Toca y Alameda
On May 29, the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life appointed Monsignor Melchor José Sánchez de Toca y Alameda as...
Annual Meeting of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life
On 21 and 22 May, in the New Synod Hall at the Vatican, the World Union of Catholic Women’s Organisations (WUCWO) took...
Pope Leo XIV appoints a lay woman as Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication
Pope Leo XIV has appointed María Montserrat Alvarado, currently President and Chief Operating Officer of EWTN News, as...
Pope Leo XIV presents his first encyclical “Magnifica humanitas”
On 25 May at 11:30 a.m., in the Synod Hall of the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas, on...
“Safeguarding faces and voices”
On the feast day of Saint Francis de Sales, patron saint of journalists, Pope Leo published his first message for the...