Pope emeritus and theologian (1927–2022)
The Catholic Church’s canonization of Cabrini is used to illustrate migration as a shared global issue. The pope’s Sant’Angelo Lodigiano trip underscores a call for global citizenship and collective action on migration, climate, health crises, and economic instability.
The Vatican has excommunicated four SSPX bishops and several priests for unauthorised ordinations, warning the faithful that adherence to the Society constitutes schism. The move escalates a long-running standoff with the traditionalist group and heightens tensions around Vatican II reforms and relations with Jews and other faiths.
SSPX plans to consecrate four bishops in Econe, Switzerland, defying a papal warning. The ceremony, timed to mark the 38th anniversary of a prior excommunication, has drawn international attention and raised questions about canon law, schism risks, and papal concessions made in the past.
Pope Leo XIV has opened a four-day visit to France, delivering speeches at the Élysée and UNESCO warning that artificial intelligence risks dehumanising society and amplifying misinformation. He has reiterated the Church’s pro‑life teaching, led large public events in Paris, and privately met seven survivors of clerical sexual abuse in Lourdes while bishops face pressure to deliver concrete reforms.
Pope Leo XIV has led an outdoor Mass at Place de la Concorde in Paris that the Vatican has estimated drew about 700,000–800,000 people. He has ridden the Champs-Élysées in a popemobile, blessed children, spoken against assisted dying and warned about AI, and will meet abuse survivors and visit Lourdes and Metz during a four-day trip.