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20 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: July 5, 2026.
After the traditionalist society consecrated four new bishops in Switzerland against Pope Leo XIV's wishes, Rome ruled the ordaining bishops automatically excommunicated and warned that its priests and faithful now risk the same.
Accepting the Liberty Medal virtually from the Vatican, the first American pope invoked the Declaration of Independence before visiting the Mediterranean island at the heart of Europe's migration crisis.
Days after Pope Leo XIV pleaded with the traditionalist group to 'please turn back,' the SSPX ordained four bishops without papal approval — triggering automatic excommunication and a formal declaration of schism.
On the centenary of Antoni Gaudi's death, the pope celebrated Mass at the Barcelona basilica and consecrated its newly completed Tower of Jesus Christ, crowned by a five-story ceramic cross.
In an unprecedented speech to the Congress of Deputies in Madrid, the American-born pope demanded respect for migrants and the unborn and drew a standing ovation lasting nearly seven minutes.
The first American pope warned Spaniards that their centuries-old faith must not become 'a museum of the past' as he opened a weeklong journey that will include a historic address to Parliament.
The pontiff draws on fantasy literature to illustrate the dangers of artificial intelligence and calls for global cooperation to control the technology.
The first American pontiff calls for putting care for humans at the heart of technological change in sweeping document addressing artificial intelligence risks.
The American pontiff's massive document marks the Vatican's most powerful intervention yet in debates over artificial intelligence misuse and overuse.
The pontiff's comprehensive document marks the Catholic Church's most significant entry into the AI debate, addressing potential misuse and overuse of the technology.
Catholic Church's most consequential statement on technology in a century echoes 1891's 'Rerum Novarum' and calls for binding AI rules, mandatory labeling and protections for displaced workers.
The first American pope places his second year under Mary's protection and renews the call for peace that has dominated his pontificate, citing the new Russia-Ukraine ceasefire.
The Vatican meeting follows President Trump's public condemnation of Pope Leo XIV for opposing the war in Iran.
The first American Pope condemned Trump's Iran war while Trump posted an AI image of himself as Jesus Christ. The global backlash crossed party lines and continents.
The president posted imagery Catholic clergy called 'blasphemous' depicting himself as a healing Christ figure — 46 minutes after attacking the Chicago-born pontiff who vowed 'no fear' of the administration.
With U.S.-Iran peace talks collapsed and the Strait of Hormuz still mined, the pontiff called on world leaders from St. Peter's Basilica to choose dialogue over rearmament.
Speaking outside Castel Gandolfo hours before the ceasefire, the pontiff said threatening to destroy an entire civilization crosses a moral line that international law alone cannot capture.
Pontiff's Easter remarks follow Palm Sunday homily declaring that God rejects the prayers of "those who wage war" amid ongoing global conflicts.
Pope Leo XIV condemns military's Christian war rhetoric as "entirely foreign to the way of Jesus Christ" amid escalating Iran conflict.
In his first Palm Sunday as pope, Leo XIV rejected claims that God justifies armed conflict and offered special prayers for Christians in the Middle East, as his address carried extraordinary weight amid the US-Israel-Iran war entering its fifth week.