U.S. bishops recount year since Pope Leo XIV’s election

U.S. bishops recount year since Pope Leo XIV’s election “I really had to do a double take, because conventional wisdom has been that there will never be a pope from the United States,” said Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski of St. Louis. ‘Families fight, but family is forever’: Pope Leo’s brother says the brothers limit political talk Pope Leo's older brother John Prevost said he and his brothers limit political topics when they speak each week, but there is that "brother connection." India’s religious liberty on ‘downward trajectory,’ commission says “Religious freedom in India is abysmal," U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Vice Chair Asif Mahmood said at a hearing on Capitol Hill.

Commission sees opportunities to expand targeted sanctions on religious liberty offenders The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom recommended targeted sanctions against the Taliban, Iraqi militias, and government officials in Nicaragua, Nigeria, China, and Russia.

Pope Leo XIV urges Catholics to read printed books The pontiff marked the centenary of the Vatican Publishing House, saying printed books remain a vital “opportunity to think” in the digital age.