With the election of Leo XIV, we may soon hear where St. Peter’s new successor stands on the question of the death penalty.

French Archbishop Thibault Verny is the Vatican's new president of its Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors ...

Pope Leo XIV has heavy responsibilities ~ not just because the Catholic Church has reached global proportions, but because it ...

Iran’s highest-ranking Shiite cleric, who has issued a religious edict calling for the assassination of U.S. President Donald ...

Pope Leo XIV is reviving a 400-year-old tradition this July, becoming the first pontiff in over a decade to summer in Castel ...

A United Nations delegation made a surprise visit on Tuesday to Holy Family Parish, the only Latin-rite Catholic Church in ...

The world seems more fractured than at any point in recent memory since World War II. Yet amid this turmoil, the Vatican is ...

The Israel-Iran conflict is a geopolitical divide rooted in ideological, religious and political differences and ...

Eighty years ago, on June 26, 1945, the UN Charter was signed at the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on ...

This year also marked the jubilee of the 350th anniversary of the Sacred Heart of Jesus devotion, introduced by St. Margaret ...

Water supply networks and communications are targeted in attacks by warmongers, who should be punished for such actions, the pontiff noted ...

Recalling the end of the Second World War 80 years ago, Pope Leo quoted Pope Francis in denouncing the number of conflicts ...