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A popemobile exhibition is unveiled at the Vatican, featuring the vehicle popes have used since 1930

Partly cloudy skies overnight with some low clouds towards morning. . A popemobile used by successive popes is displayed at "A Century of the Popemobile," an exhibition tracing 100 years of papal transportation, from Pope Pius XI's first automobile in 1930 to modern popemobiles, at the Vatican Museums, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026. The Vatican Museums on Wednesday unveiled a preview of the exhibition commemorating “A Century of the Popemobile,” featuring eight Mercedes-Benz versions of the car that popes have used since 1930. It officially opens to the public on Thursday. Separately, Pope Leo XIV — a big car lover — met with top Mercedes-Benz executives and thanked them for their partnership with the Holy See. In his remarks, the Chicago-born pope noted that the advances in automotive technology had accompanied the advances and evolutions of papal travel. “Over the decades, the popemobile…

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Pope says 'there is no such thing as a holy war' in message to religious leaders

Pope Leo gestures as he leads the Angelus prayer from a window of the Apostolic Palace following his discharge from hospital after surgery for lung cancer, at the Vatican, Oct. 18. Reuters-Yonhap ROME — Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday denounced any religious justification for wars raging around the world, saying “there is no such thing as a holy war.” “Only peace is holy,” Leo said in a video-message to a gathering of religious leaders in the Italian hilltop town of Assisi. The American pope was supposed to have presided over the gathering in person, but had to cancel his participation as he recovers from Oct. 13 lung cancer surgery. Instead, Leo sent a videotaped message that was broadcast to the delegates, who included the Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally, spiritual leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion, as well as Muslim, Buddhist and other Christian leaders. They were in Assisi…

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At Maryland University, Students Use Photos to Build Interfaith Understanding

Some of the Bibles were in Tamil, others in English. Some he acquired himself and others were gifts, including from his grandmother, who has since died. He said his experience growing up in a religiously mixed family — which includes Hindus and Christians — introduced him to “the beauty of interfaith cooperation.” Yet the university, founded in the 1960s and which today enrolls about 13,530 students, lacks some of the religious infrastructure found on other college campuses, said Matt Hoffman, director of the Center for Religion, Spirituality and Pluralism on campus. UMBC has no formal chapel, and demand for prayer and religious practice space means different communities use the same facilities. “It’s very much like a delicate dance,” Huberman said. “Even just basic functions of existing, even in a mundane way, we’re always negotiating. But it also means there is an opportunity to…

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Shurden Lecture highlights tension between civil rights and religious liberty

NewsJeff Brumley | October 28, 2026 Multiracial democracy demands an understanding of the tension between civil rights and religious liberty and the willingness to engage in difficult conversations to protect the rights of everyone, according to Maya Wiley. The civil rights attorney gave the keynote address for the Walter B. and Kay W. Shurden Lectures on Religious Liberty and Separation of Church and State at Wake Forest University School of Divinity in Winston-Salem, N.C. The annual lecture is sponsored by Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty. Wiley serves as president the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the Leadership Conference Education Fund. “What we have now, and what we should be talking about, is a political effort to whitewash white supremacy, to whitewash neo-Naziism and to whitewash ethno-Christian nationalism, and to try to define that, and any…

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