Pope Leo XIV has criticized prison overcrowding during a special Mass for detainees, guards and their families.

The pope celebrated Mass with some 5,000 people, many foreign-born Catholics, in an intimate Istanbul arena on Nov. 29, his last full day in Turkey.

ROME -- Pope Leo XIV criticized prison overcrowding and insufficient inmate rehabilitation programs on Sunday as he ...

Speaking to Turkey’s small Catholic minority during mass Saturday afternoon, Pope Leo stressed the need to work for peace and unity in such an ethnically and culturally diverse region.

Pope Leo XIV recites the Angelus after Mass for the canonization of seven new saints in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Oct. 19, 2025. Credit: CNS photo/Lola Gomez I don’t envy Pope Leo XIV as he ...

With hymns echoing through marble halls and incense in the air, it was meant to be another quiet morning at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. But an unknown person stormed the Altar of Confession ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Diocese of St. Augustine announced on Thursday that a representative of Pope Leo XIV will be in Jacksonville to celebrate the upcoming Red Mass. Cardinal Christophe Pierre, ...

At the conclusion of the conference, Mass in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe will take place at 4 p.m. local time in St. Peter ...

Pope Leo XIV will celebrate Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Day morning, Dec. 25 — a custom dating to the pontificate of St. John Paul II. The Vatican announced Tuesday Pope Leo’s Mass ...

For the world's 1.4 billion Catholics and for millions of other people as well, the Catholic Church's 2025 was primarily ...