In the video, the pope addresses his support for immigrants with cardinals, the senior members of the Catholic Church, after being shown a video by the Hope Border Institute about the anxiety many immigrants are experiencing amid ICE raids across the US.

The canonizations, previously approved by the late Pope Francis, will be presided over by Pope Leo XIV on Oct. 19 at the Vatican. The group includes three women and four men, with two martyrs, three laypeople, and two founders of religious orders. Among them are Papua New Guinea’s first saint and the first two saints from Venezuela.

Cardinal Schönborn, a theologian who led the Archdiocese of Vienna for 30 years, helped write the Catechism of the Catholic Church and chaired the Austrian bishops’ conference for 22 years.

Pope Leo XIV is set to create seven new saints Sunday, including the first from Papua New Guinea, an archbishop killed in the Armenian genocide and a Venezuelan "doctor of the poor".Those to be proclaimed saints Sunday are Peter To Rot,

Pope Leo XIV convened a conference dedicated to deepening the environmental advocacy of the Catholic Church, with a little help from Arnold Schwarzenegger. Claire Giangravé with Religion News Service

The American-born pope emphasizes that confronting climate change is a spiritual imperative and responsibility, becoming an ever more prominent focus of the Catholic Church.

The Vatican's child protection commission accused senior Catholic leaders on Thursday of being too slow to help victims of sexual abuse by clergy and implement new safeguarding efforts in an unusually critical internal report on the issue.

A Vatican commission for the protection of children has said the mishandling by the Catholic Church’s leaders of sexual abuse allegations involving clergy is causing “ongoing harm” to victims.

Pope Leo XIV is weeks away from approving statutes that would vaporize Opus Dei as a unified organization. The group that gave us both Da Vinci Code villains and connections to Spain's Fascist dictator Franco is about to become three separate entities.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV will finally canonize Venezuela’s beloved “doctor of the poor” Sunday, offering the Caribbean nation its first saint and a reason to celebrate amid its years-long economic crisis and new tensions with the United States.