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Pope Leo XIV addresses members of the diplomatic corps accredited to the Vatican at the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Jan. 9, 2026. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope Leo condemns ‘zeal for war,’ weak multilateralism in speech to diplomats

Hannah Brockhaus|Jan 9, 2026|6 Min Read

Pope Leo XIV speaks to diplomats during an audience with the Vatican diplomatic corps in the Apostolic Palace's Clemetine Hall at the Vatican May 16, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope Leo to diplomats: Church will always speak truth, work for justice

Carol Glatz|May 16, 2025|5 Min Read

Pope Francis listens as Msgr. Filippo Ciampanelli, an aide, reads the pope's prepared text to ambassadors and diplomats accredited to the Holy See during their annual meeting in the Hall of Blessing in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Jan. 9, 2025. Pope Francis told the diplomats that he had a cold and asked the aide to read his speech. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Media literacy education and a global ‘diplomacy of hope’ are needed, pope says to diplomats

Elise Ann Allen|Jan 9, 2025|6 Min Read

Father Visvaldas Kulbokas, center, serves as translator as Pope Francis and Russian President Vladimir Putin exchange gifts during a private audience at the Vatican in this July 4, 2019, file photo. In an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, published May 3, 2022, Pope Francis said he would like to go to Moscow to meet Vladimir Putin in an attempt to end the conflict in Ukraine. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Francis compares Ukraine to Rwanda, unsure about arming Kyiv

Inés San Martín|May 3, 2022|4 Min Read

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and Pope Francis smile during a meeting at Jose Marti International Airport in Havana in this Feb. 12, 2016, photo. Pope Francis told the Argentine paper La Nación April 21, 2022, that a meeting with the patriarch planned for June has been canceled out of concern it could cause "confusion." (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Pope says proposed June meeting with Patriarch Kirill called off

Inés San Martín|Apr 22, 2022|3 Min Read

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, speaks at the U.N. headquarters in New York Sept. 28, 2019. (CNS photo/Brendan McDermid, Reuters)

World

Vatican’s top diplomat offers mediation to end ‘war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine’

Inés San Martín|Feb 28, 2022|3 Min Read

Pope Francis arrives for an annual meeting with diplomats accredited to the Holy See, at the Vatican Jan. 10, 2022. In his address, the pope called for an urgent reality check against misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope decries politicization of COVID pandemic, vaccines

Elise Ann Allen|Jan 10, 2022|8 Min Read

The flag of Vietnam. Credit: little_ram via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

News

Agreement reached on permanent Holy See representative to Vietnam

Hannah Brockhaus|Aug 24, 2019|2 Min Read

Pope Francis addresses nuncios from around the world during a meeting at the Vatican June 13

Be men of God, not luxury-seeking diplomats, pope tells nuncios

Junno Arocho Esteves|Jun 13, 2019|3 Min Read

An F/A-18E Super Hornet flies above the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea May 18

People-to-people diplomacy suggested to ease U.S.-Iran tensions

Dennis Sadowski|May 21, 2019|4 Min Read

Members of a Venezuelan delegation sent by Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido to meet with Italy's Interior Minister pose in Rome

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Holy See receives Venezuelan opposition delegation

Courtney Mares|Feb 12, 2019|3 Min Read

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