Articles by Nicolás de Cárdenas
Pope Leo XIV urges Catholic politicians to follow the Gospel in public life
Aug 28, 2025 / 12:30 pmPope Leo XIV encouraged Catholic politicians to live coherently as Christians and follow the Gospel, even when performing their public duties in a secular polity.
Patriarchates of Jerusalem: Forced evacuation of Gaza City is a ‘death sentence’
Aug 26, 2025 / 16:27 pmIn a joint Aug. 26 message, the Latin and the Greek Orthodox Patriarchates of Jerusalem denounced the evacuation of Gaza City in the face of an imminent Israeli operation.
‘Let there be peace!’: Book of Pope Leo XIV’s discourses to be published Aug. 27
Aug 26, 2025 / 15:27 pmOn Aug. 27 the Vatican will publish a compilation of Pope Leo XIV’s discourses from the first months of his pontificate in a book signed by the pontiff.
Vatican announces theme for 2026 World Day of Peace
Aug 26, 2025 / 12:53 pm“Peace Be With You All: Towards an Unarmed and Disarming Peace” will be the theme for the 2026 World Day of Peace, the Vatican announced Aug. 26.
Pope Leo XIV to inaugurate integral ecology center in Castel Gandolfo in September
Aug 26, 2025 / 07:00 amPope Leo XIV is scheduled to inaugurate on Sept. 5 Borgo Laudato Si’, a development dedicated to the care of creation inspired by Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical.
Pope Leo XIV: Lack of priests is a ‘great misfortune’ for the Catholic Church
Aug 25, 2025 / 16:57 pmPope Leo XIV said the shortage of priests is “a great misfortune” for the Catholic Church during an audience Aug. 25, the feast day of St. Louis IX, with French altar servers.
Pope Leo XIV calls Christians to ecumenism to be architects of reconciliation and peace
Aug 22, 2025 / 15:07 pmPope Leo XIV issued an ecumenical appeal to all Christians to be architects of reconciliation and peace throughout the world on the occasion of Ecumenical Week.
Pope Leo XIV calls for a ‘great cultural conversion’ in his greeting to Rimini meeting
Aug 21, 2025 / 16:15 pmPope Leo XIV called for “faith, hope, and charity to be translated into a great cultural conversion” in a message for the Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples.
Pope Leo XIV calls for fasting and prayer for peace on Friday, Aug. 22
Aug 21, 2025 / 12:42 pmPope Leo XIV has called for a day of fasting and prayer for peace on Friday, Aug. 22, coinciding with the liturgical feast of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Pope Leo XIV looks to Ukraine with hope: ‘We must work hard, pray hard’
Aug 20, 2025 / 15:00 pmOn Aug. 19, Pope Leo XIV expressed hope for an end to the war in Ukraine, noting that hard work and prayer are needed to achieve peace.
After 20 years of gay marriage in Spain, ‘not impossible’ to rescind the law, expert says
Jul 1, 2025 / 09:00 amSpain was the third country in the world, after the Netherlands and Belgium, to equate marriage with same-sex unions.
Widow, mother of 4 nuns and a priest, takes perpetual vows
Jun 20, 2025 / 10:29 amSister Maria Zhang Yue Chun made her perpetual vows on May 13 at the convent of the Augustinian Recollects in Vitigudino, Salamanca province, Spain.
Angela Musolesi, assistant to exorcist Father Gabriel Amorth: ‘The devil is afraid of me’
Jun 4, 2025 / 10:47 amA Franciscan nun, Sister Angela Musolesi collaborated for 28 years with the renowned Italian priest and exorcist Father Gabriel Amorth.
More than 90,000 people venerated body of St. Teresa of Ávila during public exposition
May 28, 2025 / 18:11 pmApproximately 93,000 faithful venerated the body of St. Teresa of Jesus (Ávila), which was publicly exhibited May 11–25 for the third time in four centuries.
Pope Leo XIV’s connection to Spanish Civil War martyrs, Valley of the Fallen
May 20, 2025 / 06:00 amPope Leo XIV carries on his pectoral cross a relic of an Augustinian martyr bishop, Anselmo Polanco, who was executed during the 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War.
PHOTOS: Pope Leo XIV meeting the last three pontiffs
May 9, 2025 / 15:53 pmPope Leo XIV had the opportunity to meet three of his predecessors at the helm of the Barque of Peter.
Asian cardinal asks for prayers to discern what kind of pope the Church needs
Apr 30, 2025 / 15:49 pm“It is urgent and important that you all pray for us so that we can discern what kind of pope the Church needs in this present day,” Cardinal William Goh said.
These are the heads of state and dignitaries who will attend Pope Francis’ funeral
Apr 25, 2025 / 17:36 pmPope Francis’ funeral will be attended by dozens of heads of state, monarchs, foreign ministers, and other leaders from around the world.
Tallest cross in the world will remain despite Spanish ‘resignification’ project
Apr 5, 2025 / 10:00 amThe 492-foot cross at the Valley of the Fallen, the world’s tallest, will remain standing.
Spanish priest’s new book takes critical look at transhumanism
Apr 3, 2025 / 10:30 amIn a new book titled “Integral Transhumanism,” Spanish priest Ricardo Mejía Fernández examines the transhumanist movement.