Camillo Barone

1 month ago | ncronline.org | Camillo Barone |Michael Sean Winters |Elisabeth Auvillain

After Pope Francis' death, the Vatican's charitable arm Caritas said in early May that the late pontiff had donated one of his popemobiles to be converted into a mobile health unit to serve the children of Gaza. Two weeks later, the retrofitted popemobile is nowhere to be seen in Gaza and is not expected anytime soon, said Fr. Gabriel Romanelli, the pastor of Holy Family Parish, the only Catholic church on the Gaza Strip.

1 month ago | ncronline.org | Michael Sean Winters |Camillo Barone |Christopher White

In 2007, when Pope Benedict XVI traveled to the Basilica of St. Pietro in Ciel d'Oro in Pavia, Italy, to venerate the earthly remains of St. Augustine, he spoke of his gratitude to the great Western church father, "who played such an important part in my life as a theologian and a Pastor, but, I would say, even more as a man and a priest." Benedict called Augustine the "Doctor gratiae" or "Doctor of grace." "The Letter to the Hebrews [10:12-14] has set us before Christ, the eternal High...

1 month ago | ncronline.org | Camillo Barone |Christopher White

Pope Leo XIV, in his inaugural Mass as the newly elected pontiff, cast a vision of a united church that offers God's unconditional love to everyone. "We are called to offer God's love to everyone, in order to achieve that unity which does not cancel out differences but values the personal history of each person and the social and religious culture of every people," he said on May 18 before a crowd of 200,000 gathered in a sun-drenched St. Peter's Square.

1 month ago | ncronline.org | NCR Voices Lessons |Michael Sean Winters |Camillo Barone |Brian Roewe

Leo XIII, who served as pope 1878-1903, is depicted in a window at Holy Family Church in Mitchell, South Dakota, in a 1999 file photo. His 1891 encyclical on labor, Rerum Novarum, marks the start of modern Catholic social teaching. (CNS/Crosiers) Pope Leo XIV, in a meeting with cardinals two days after his election, explained that he chose that name as an acknowledgment of the similarities of our own time with those of Pope Leo XIII.

1 month ago | ncronline.org | Michael Sean Winters |Camillo Barone |Brian Roewe |NCR Voices Lessons

An undated file photo shows Pope John Paul II greeting then-Augustinian Fr. Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV. He became the first U.S. pope in history to be elected pope May 8, 2025, at the Vatican. (OSV News/Augustinian Province of Our Mother of Good Counsel handout via Reuters) Augustinian Fr. Giuseppe Caruso recalls a moment of deep uncertainty during his years as an Augustinian friar.