Toronto Catholics have urged a cardinal to mediate with Pope Leo as SSPX faces excommunication over planned bishop consecrations.

CTK parent Danny Kroeze said the people who worked on the 148-page appeal understood it was unlikely to succeed, but submitted it despite that.

The SSPX has said it will proceed with consecrations, despite a Vatican warning that it would constitute a “schismatic act.”

Pope Leo XIV was given a Terrible Towel when he was visited by Saint Vincent College leaders at the Vatican.

Parents appealing the closing of Christ the King School received news that the Vatican denied their appeal to challenge the decision made by the O’Gorman School Board and Diocese.

A photograph of cofounder of US artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic, Christopher Olah, attending the Vatican. The image is color-treated in an offset screenprint style and set against a field of neon yellow.

Pope Leo XIV says Vatican finances do not keep him up at night. In his first year, rising Vatican bank income and renewed interest from American Catholic donors suggest he may have reason for calm.

Pope Leo XIV has created a study group on artificial intelligence in a sign of his ongoing concern about the technology.

Magnifica Humanitas is being read as a moral warning. It is also a positioning event for the AI industry — and Anthropic just won the dais.