Pope Leo Asks Cardinals for Continued Collaboration in Governing Church, Advancing Peace

Catholic Church can help heal world's divisions, cardinals say

Pope Leo XIV delivers the homily during Mass opening the first day of a consistory with cardinals from around the world in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican June 26, 2026. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) Cardinals from around the world underlined the need for the Catholic Church to respond to growing global polarisation and social fragmentation and to strongly proclaim the Gospel. They spoke during a 26-27 June extraordinary consistory at the Vatica…

Pope Leo asks cardinals for continued collaboration in governing church, advancing peace

Over two days, 178 of the world's cardinals gathered at the Vatican to discuss a sprawling agenda that ranged from the Catholic Church's efforts to become a more listening body to its moral teaching on war.

Cardinals Say Pope Leo's Consistories Are Forging New Bonds Within the Church - The Good Newsroom

Cardinals Say Pope Leo's Consistories Are Forging New Bonds Within the Church World, Pope Leo XIV | 06/28/2026 By: OSV News Pope Leo XIV holds his second gathering of the College of Cardinals in six months, with prelates saying the roundtable format is helping them build relationships Pope Leo speaks June 26, 2026, at the opening o…

In consistory’s 1st session, 178 cardinals ponder the contemporary world

178 of the 241 members of the College of Cardinals took part in the first session of the two-day extraordinary consistory (program), during which they pondered