Pope Leo XIV has made his first appointment of a Chinese bishop. The nomination signals Leo is continuing the Vatican’s 2018 ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In a recorded message, the parish priest of the only Catholic Church in Gaza spoke about the struggles ...

After the white smoke cleared, Brown papal historian David Kertzer reflected on the significance of an American pope, how the ...

Pope Leo XIV does not seek to become a mediator in Russia's war against Ukraine. Why is the Vatican refraining from taking ...

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday celebrated Pentecost Mass with participants in the Year of Hope’s Jubilee of Ecclesial Movements, ...

This week two prisoners currently serving sentences in Rome’s Rebibbia prison obtained special permission to participate in ...

While Cardinal Pedro Ricardo Barreto Jimeno doesn't plan to join protests, he said he will be supporting peaceful activists' call for action on the ‘ecological debt’ crisis.

The new pope seems remarkably unflustered by his election, aware of the enormity of the change that has happened to him, but ...

As a Chicago-born math major, canon lawyer and two-time superior of his global Augustinian religious order, the 69-year-old ...

Sister Maria Gloria Riva from a cloistered, contemplative monastery in the small state of San Marino in Italy, was the ...

How will Pope Leo XIV deal with the Catholic bishops in the US who resisted the pastoral priorities set by his Argentine ...

Experts from 18 European Union countries gathered June 3–5 to reflect on communication that “restores meaning” to people’s ...