Nicolás de Cárdenas

Nicolás de Cárdenas has been the correspondent for ACI Prensa in Spain since July 2022. In his journalism career he has specialized in socio-religious topics, and he has also worked for local and international civil associations.

Pope Leo XIV greets an elderly woman at the Vatican on Oct. 3, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo: Old Age a Gift and Challenge; Requires Response of Missionary Pastoral Ministry

On Oct. 3, Pope Leo XIV received at the Vatican Apostolic Palace participants in the Second International Congress on Pastoral...

Monsignor Melchor Sánchez de Toca, relator of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. / Credit: Diocese of Vitoria

Vatican Expert: The Lives of the Saints Raise Incisive Questions for Our Consciences

The relator for the Vatican's Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, Monsignor Melchor Sánchez de Toca, said the lives of...

Pope Leo XIV receives members of various religious congregations on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV Highlights Value of Vow of Obedience, Says "not very fashionable today"

“When it is professed and lived with faith, obedience reveals a luminous path of self-giving that can help the world...

Pope Leo XIV speaks to pilgrims at the general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall, Vatican City, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV Recalls the "life and witness" of St. Augustine on His Feast Day

Pope Leo XIV recalled what the “life and witness” of St. Augustine means for Christians on the day the Catholic...

Pope Leo XIV addresses a delegation of political representatives and civic leaders from the Diocese of Créteil, France, on Aug. 28, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV Urges Catholic Politicians to Follow the Gospel in Public Life

Pope Leo XIV encouraged Catholic politicians to live coherently as Christians and follow the Gospel, even when performing their public...

Pope Leo XIV, whose recent discourses will be published in a book on Aug. 27, waves during his Wednesday audience Aug. 20, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

"Let there be peace!": Book of Pope Leo XIV’s Discourses to be Published August 27

On Aug. 27 the Vatican will publish a compilation of Pope Leo XIV’s discourses from the first months of his...

The Vatican Gardens at Castel Gandolfo. / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA

Pope Leo XIV to Inaugurate Integral Ecology Center in Castel Gandolfo in September

Pope Leo XIV is scheduled to inaugurate on Sept. 5 Borgo Laudato Si’, a development dedicated to the care of creation...

Pope Leo XIV addresses pilgrims during his general audience on July 30, 2025, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Vatican Announces Theme for 2026 World Day of Peace

“Peace Be With You All: Towards an Unarmed and Disarming Peace” will be the theme for the 2026 World Day...

Pope Leo XIV greets French altar servers during an audience on Aug. 25, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV: Lack of Priests is a "great misfortune" for the Catholic Church

Pope Leo XIV said the shortage of priests is “a great misfortune” for the Catholic Church during an audience Aug....

Pope Leo XIV meets with a U.S. ecumenical group led by Cardinal Joseph Tobin and Greek Orthodox Archbishop Elpidophoros of America on July 17, 2025, at the Vatican, encouraging them to “return to the roots of our faith” in their pilgrimage to Italy and Turkey. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV Calls Christians to Ecumenism to be Architects of Reconciliation and Peace

Pope Leo XIV issued an ecumenical appeal to all Christians to be architects of reconciliation and peace throughout the world...

Bernhard Scholz is president of the Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples, also known as the Rimini meeting, which offers an extensive program of activities (political, economic, cultural, etc.) that brings thousands of people from various religions and walks of life each year during the last week of August to the town of Rimini on Italy’s Adriatic coast. / Credit: Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Pope Leo XIV Calls for a "great cultural conversion" in His Greeting to Rimini Meeting

Pope Leo XIV called for “faith, hope, and charity to be translated into a great cultural conversion” in a message...

Pope Leo XIV prays during his Wednesday general audience on Aug. 13, 2025, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV Calls for Fasting and Prayer for Peace on Friday, Aug. 22

Pope Leo XIV has called for a day of fasting and prayer for peace on Friday, Aug. 22, coinciding with...

Pope Leo XIV greets the faithful at the gates of Castel Gandolfo on Aug. 19, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV Looks to Ukraine with Hope: "We must work hard, pray hard"

On Aug. 19, Pope Leo XIV expressed hope for an end to the war in Ukraine, noting that hard work...

Pope Benedict XVI greets the future Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican Gardens. / Credit: Courtesy of the Augustinian Midwest Province (USA), Our Mother of Good Counsel

Pope Leo XIV Meeting the Last Three Pontiffs: Photos

Pope Leo XIV had the opportunity to meet three of his predecessors at the helm of the Barque of Peter.

Maltese priest Fabio Attard was elected rector major of the Salesians for the next six years. / Credit: Courtesy of Salesian Family

Salesians Elect Maltese Priest Fabio Attard as Don Bosco’s 11th Successor

Maltese priest Fabio Attard was elected as the new rector major of the Salesian congregation during its general chapter, becoming...

The Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, speaks with Father Gabriel Romanelli, pastor of Holy Family Church, during his December 2024 visit to Gaza. / Credit: Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem

Cardinal Pizzaballa on Truce Between Israel and Hamas: "It was absolutely necessary"

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa said that in the Holy Land “people are happy because this war has worn us down, exhausted...

Pope Francis meets with members of the Italian Union of Blind and Partially Sighted People on Jan. 3, 2025, in Clementine Hall at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Francis Encourages Blind Young People to be Pilgrims of hope

Pope Francis encouraged those present to be “people on the journey” who always have the desire to continue, “always with...

Pope Francis celebrates Mass in the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta on May 1, 2020, the feast of St. Joseph the Worker. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Francis Asks Cardinals to Achieve "zero deficit" in the Catholic Church

Pope Francis has called on cardinals to work to achieve the goal of “zero deficit” in the economy of the...

The population of Papua New Guinea is currently 30% Catholic, with growth at a rate of 40,000 baptized each year. / Credit: Pontifical Mission Society of Spain

Some People in Papua New Guinea Walked Three Weeks to See Pope Francis

Some people even came from the Solomon Islands, about 885 miles to the east in the South Pacific.

Pope Francis greets pilgrims at his Wednesday general audience on Aug. 7, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media

Vatican Announces Theme for World Day of Peace 2025

“Forgive Us Our Trespasses, Grant Us Your Peace” is the theme chosen by Pope Francis for the next World Day...