Christopher Lamb
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Vatican Correspondent for @CNN |📚Author: The Outsider | @officialcufc supporter
Pope Leo XIV, who studied Mathematics at Villanova university, today visited the Vatican observatory (@SpecolaVaticana) on the anniversary of the 1969 moon landing. 📸Vatican Media



Vatican: Pope Leo XIV had a phone call with Prime Minister Netanyahu this morning during which Leo “repeated his appeal for a renewed push for negotiations, a ceasefire and an end to the war.” The pope also reiterated the need to “protect places of worship.”

Pope Leo leads the Angelus prayer from the entrance of the apostolic palace at #CastelGandolfo, the hilltop town where he is having a summer break.



The Vatican's embassy in Kyiv was slightly damaged during Russian attacks on the Ukrainian capital early on Thursday morning, the embassy said in a statement. For @Reuters reuters.com/world/vatican-…
Pope Leo and President Zelensky met today in Castel Gandolfo. The Vatican said the pair discussed "the urgent need for a just and lasting peace" while Leo reiterated his willingness "to welcome representatives of Russia and Ukraine to the Vatican for negotiations."
Pope Leo XIV, celebrating a Mass "For the Care of Creation" in the gardens of Castel Gandolfo, said during his homily: "we have to pray for the conversion of so many people, inside and outside the Church, who still do not recognize the urgency of caring for the common home."…



Pope Leo interrupted a two-week vacation on Wednesday to celebrate a special Mass exhorting Catholics to exercise care for creation, in the Vatican's second major appeal in a week for the world to address global climate change. For @Reuters reuters.com/sustainability…
See where Pope Leo XIV goes for a summer break. Watch here: cnn.com/2025/07/06/tra…

Pope Leo expresses his “sincere condolences” to “all the families who have lost loved ones, in particular their daughters who were at summer camp, in the disaster caused by the flooding of the Guadalupe river in Texas in the United States. We pray for them.”

See where Pope Leo XIV will take his summer break. Report for @CNN (📹Fiona Sibbett + editing @philclarkehill) #CastelGandolfo cnn.com/2025/07/06/tra…
The blessings of gay people in relationships as described in #FiduciaSupplicans will remain, affirms Vatican doctrine chief. vidanuevadigital.com/2025/07/04/doc…
Pope Leo XIV has appointed the Archbishop Thibault Verny of Chambéry, France, as President of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors. He succeeds Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston in the role. 📸Vatican Media

Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington DC speaking to @CNN about immigrant deportations.