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

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 ...

During his papacy, Pope Francis encouraged the clergy to use the "digital continent" to broaden their evangelical work. They seem to have paid attention: over the last few years, a number ...

Pope Leo XIV appointed Luciano Maza Huamán the new Archbishop of Piura, the Peruvian diocese previously headed by a member of ...

Activists and academics advocating for the repatriation of artifacts “stolen by Pope Pius XI and his missionaries” from ...

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

On Sunday, Pope Leo XIV called for nations to give out amnesties and pardons to prisoners during the Jubilee year.

Pope Leo XIV has strongly criticised prison overcrowding and inadequate inmate rehabilitation programmes, delivering his message during a special Mass for detainees, guards, and their families at the ...

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.

A Swedish youth choir marked the feast of St. Lucy by singing at a Mass at the Vatican on Thursday, Dec. 11. Students from ...

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