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

The pontiff offers something rare: a pastor-leader urging the church to reclaim the dignity of every person — not as an ...

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

The Vatican said an estimated 6,000 people signed up to participate in the weekend pilgrimage, including representatives from ...

The women meet all the requirements except one: they're not men. As deacons, they could preach at Mass and preside over baptisms, weddings and funerals.

At the time of his election in May and in the months immediately following, this correspondent expressed a cautious ...

Archbishop Georg Gänswein, former secretary of Pope Benedict XVI, said he hopes the beatification process will begin soon for ...

Pope Leo XIV marked the popular Marian feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe by asking that Mary to intercede in the effort to ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Leo’s updates to the Vatican labor code attempt to streamline a Curia under pressure, from pension ...

A Vatican report on women deacons published last week said that women could not be admitted to the diaconate “understood as a ...

The American pontiff has rebuked the White House over its treatment of immigrants and the potential invasion of Venezuela.

The pope suggested he was uncomfortable with “the style of prayer in that time and place,” adding, “In fact, I prefer to pray ...