The apostolic administrator of Nepal’s apostolic vicariate praised the ideals of youth protestors in the South Asian nation.

“We talked about the importance of chastity, how it heals and strengthens and restores the person,” Father Brian Gannon, the apostolate’s executive director, said in an interview with EWTN News. “The Pope was obviously very encouraging.”

The Pontiff “talked about freedom, about what real freedom is—not the unbridled freedom that the world offers, but rather mastering our passions and being in complete surrender to the will of God,” Father Gannon continued.

“All the members of Courage throughout the whole world will see that the Pope extended an audience and listened and is very, very supportive of everything that Courage is doing,” the priest added.

Pope Leo XIV today appointed Bishop James Golka of Colorado Springs as the archbishop of Denver.

Pope Leo XIV has issued “Life in Abundance,” a letter on the value of sport, on the occasion of the 25th Winter Olympic Games and 14th Paralympic Games.

Pope Leo XIV called for a global end to human trafficking in his message for the 12th World Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking.

Pope Leo XIV reflected at length on Christian formation in an address to the plenary assembly of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life.

Cardinal Anthony Poola of Hyderabad has been elected president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI), the conference announced today.

The Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life began a three-day plenary assembly on February 4, only the third such assembly since the dicastery’s establishment in 2016, and the first such assembly since 2023.

In the four-minute video, filmed in San Pellegrino in Vaticano and released on February 5, Pope Leo began, “Lord Jesus, who welcomed the little ones in your arms and blessed them tenderly, today we bring before you the children living with incurable illnesses.”

The Pope concluded:

Make of us a Church that, animated by the feelings of your Heart and moved by prayer and service, knows how to uphold fragility, and in the midst of suffering, becomes a source of comfort, a seed of hope, and a proclamation of new life. Amen.

“As a priest and bishop, I have observed with increasing pastoral concern the emergence of a broad crisis concerning mental health that is negatively impacting Americans, and especially young people, in terms of their spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing,” Bishop Burbidge wrote in “The Divine Physician and a Christian Approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing.”

The prelate also offered his reflections on the “proper place of counseling in the Catholic life—when and in what manner we should make use of it in our pursuit of that authentic happiness that is holiness.”