Pope Leo XIV

Despite answering the security questions for his bank in Chicago, Leo was left unable to change his account details over the phone

US president launches fresh verbal attack on pontiff in advance of Marco Rubio’s visit to Vatican

Some people have lived in the US for 40 years, own their homes and pay taxes, but these are uncertain times

Micheál Martin says further cost-of-living measures coming in next budget

Washington relations with Italy are strained following US president’s criticism of prime minister and pontiff

Plus: The youthful protester pope, and a hiccup in a case against John Magnier

His opposition to Donald Trump and the war on Iran is only a part of what makes Leo a unique and important figure in our time

JD Vance’s recent comments reflect a growing movement of conservative believers promoting a more traditionalist, ethnocentric path

The US secretary of war has repeatedly invoked God’s will to legitimise military aggression

US president has been under pressure since starting war against Iran, with Israel, that has seen fuel prices rise sharply

Right before Pope Leo was elected, Trump put out a meme of himself as the pope

It has been disconcerting to see US Catholics belatedly turning on Trump. Where was the outrage before now?

Rite & Reason: In criticising the pope so harshly, Donald Trump seems to have lost the run of himself

The president is hurting the most vulnerable people in the US

The golfer’s latest win at the Masters ‘puts him in another stratosphere’ and is likely to supercharge his earning power

Pontiff doubles down on excoriating criticism of military aggressors in the face of Trump’s ire

Pope Leo spoke of praying for peace as ‘a bulwark against that delusion of omnipotence that surrounds us’

More of the same abhorrent rhetoric from US president

Trump’s AI-generated image of himself as a Christ-like healer was received with horror by conservative Christians

Pontiff denounces leaders who invoke religion to justify war as US bishops offer support after Vance remarks

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Roman historian Tacitus made apt criticism of conquerors who create a wilderness and call it peace

Leo, who has twice recently faced criticism from Donald Trump, calls for end to country’s anglophone conflict

As the US president threatens to wipe out Iran and attacks the pope, some former allies and advisers are questioning whether he has grown increasingly unbalanced

Ancient Order of Hibernians says US president’s criticism of Pope Leo and AI-generated image has ‘deeply offended’ Catholics

Just back from fruitless negotiations with Iran, the US vice-president found himself having to address a fraught new episode in the uneasy relationship between church and state in America

World leaders show very different kinds of qualities and abilities

The US president’s conservative, Christian supporters decried the Truth Social post, calling it ‘disgusting’

Pontiff said he will ‘continue to speak out loudly against war’

Inside Politics: Government defends plans as ‘most generous in EU’ while Opposition and protesters dismiss measures as insufficient

Trump takes credit for rise to papacy of Leo, one of the world’s most powerful critics of the US war with Iran

Leo uses Easter Sunday address to urge peace; Trump threatens to bomb Iran’s civilian infrastructure in expletive-stuffed post

Pope Leo condemns ‘idolatry of profit’ and ‘violence of war that kills and destroys’

Reviews of works by Brian Heffernan; June O’Sullivan; and David Annand

Thousands of worshippers pray for war orphans, political prisoners and those who died in conflicts

The goo – a longing for draught Guinness which overtakes the sufferer – contributed to left-wing causes in Dublin city

Fr Edward Flanagan, born in 1886, has passed the second of four steps to canonisation

Donald Trump’s actions must be called out

‘Accelerating decline’ in vocations means St Augustine’s on Washington Street will shut its doors in July

Leo’s first major overseas trip will involve visit to Algeria, Angola, Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon