Cardinals Stress Peace and Unity at Leo XIV Consistory
Cardinals who spoke to the Register as they entered the consistory all said they welcomed the Pope’s decision to host the two-day meeting. Participants in the Jan. 7-8 extraordinary consistory in Rome shared their thoughts with the Register Wednesday on Pope Leo XIV’s first major meeting with the College of Cardinals since his election in […]
Liturgy sidestepped at Pope Leo XIV’s first consistory
ROME — Some cardinals and faithful who have a devotion to the traditional Roman rite have expressed concern that the liturgy appears to be sidelined in the extraordinary consistory currently underway at the Vatican after the cardinals voted to give priority to other issues on the agenda. In his opening address to the consistory yesterday, […]
Pope Leo XIV Opens Consistory: “I Am Here to Listen”
In his opening address at the extraordinary consistory convened for Jan. 7–8, Pope Leo XIV assured the cardinals from around the world gathered at the Vatican that “I am here to listen.” The Holy Father reminded the cardinals, assembled in the Synod Hall, that “as we learned during the two assemblies of the Synod of […]
Pope Leo XIV Reaffirms Vatican II Before Cardinals’ Meeting
Pope Leo XIV began a series of reflections on the Second Vatican Council at his first general audience of 2026 on Wednesday. The public audience, held indoors in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall due to low temperatures, took place shortly before the start of Leo’s first consultation with cardinals, called a consistory, convened for Jan. […]
Latin Mass Debate: Priest Proposes New Canonical Structure
As cardinals gather this week in an extraordinary consistory convened by Pope Leo XIV on Jan. 7–8, a French traditionalist priest has sent a memorandum to members of the Sacred College of Cardinals proposing the creation of an ecclesiastical jurisdiction specifically structured to oversee the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass in an effort to […]
Assessing the Fruits of the Jubilee of Hope
COMMENTARY: Hope helps us to stake our life on what Jesus has told us about this world and the next. The Jubilee of Hope will conclude when Pope Leo closes the Holy Door at St. Peter’s Basilica on Jan. 6. Now is an opportunity for us to begin to assess its notable successes and missed […]
Springtime Delayed: Why the Great Jubilee Fell Short
COMMENTARY: A quarter century after the Jubilee of 2000, the Church is still asking why the evangelical hopes it kindled have yet to bear their full fruit. On the first day of this new year, Pope Leo XIV quoted Pope St. John Paul II, speaking “at the conclusion of the Great Jubilee of the Year […]
Holy Door Closes as ‘Pilgrims of Hope’ Reflect on Jubilee Year
As one pilgrim told the Register: ‘Hope takes on a radiant strength when thousands carry it together.’As Pope Leo XIV closed the Holy Door today in Rome that was opened by the late Pope Francis last year, stories are being told of the many graces that pilgrims experienced, traversing the path that more than 33 […]
Pope Leo XIV: God Is Found in Humble Places, Not Prestige
Celebrating the solemnity of the Epiphany in St. Peter’s Basilica on Tuesday, Pope Leo XIV said God’s saving presence is revealed not “in a prestigious location” but “in a humble place” and urged Catholics to protect what is holy and newly born — “small, vulnerable, fragile” — in a world that often seeks to profit […]
The Extraordinary Consistory: What’s on Pope Leo XIV’s Agenda
Curial reform, synodality, and liturgy are on the agenda in the first such gathering of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate Important issues are on the agenda for Pope Leo XIV’s first extraordinary consistory of his pontificate which takes place on Wednesday and Thursday this week. But the time allotted to discuss them will be short and […]