A new book suggests Chicago-born Richard Prevost may have been reluctant at first to take on the weighty responsibility of becoming Pope Leo XIV.

St. Cloud Diocese seminarian's dad hopes his son can get noted White Sox fan Pope Leo XIV to autograph some baseball memorabilia.

Vatican bishops walked the runway for Dolce & Gabbana in Rome, fusing faith and fashion at Castel Sant’Angelo.

Vatican’s Secretary for Relations with States, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, met with India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar amid calls to make increasing attacks against Christians a bilateral discussion point.

The Polish government demanded that the Vatican take action after two bishops made “unacceptable statements” at one of the country’s most important Catholic

A mysterious 12th-century Vatican prophecy by Saint Malachy predicts each pope—ending with “Peter the Roman,” who may oversee Rome's fall. Fact or forgery, it still fuels debate and apocalyptic intrigue.

Msgr. Carlo Alberto Capella, a former Vatican diplomat, was convicted of distributing and possessing child pornography

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met with Pope Leo XIV and thanked him for the Vatican’s efforts to help return children taken by Russia during the war.

The debate in the Catholic Church over the celebration of the old Latin Mass is heating up just as Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate is getting under way. An apparent leak

A Vatican office has ruled in favor of Bishop Michael W. Fisher’s decision to merge St. Michael and St. Louis parishes.