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

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

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

The best way to describe him is as the anti-polarization pope. His biggest issues are peace and unity. He knows he’s ...

Traveling through the Mideast, Leo XIV channeled many of his predecessor’s messages. Leo’s deliberate manner differed from ...

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.

The death of Pope Francis brought change to the Catholic Church, which counts 1.4 billion adherents and is now led — for the ...

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 ...

Pope Leo XIV’s profile is among the most viewed pages on the digital encyclopedia Wikipedia and was one of the most searched ...