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

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

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 ...

When I heard Robert Francis Prevost was elected the new pope and that he was raised in my hometown of Chicago, I cheered ...

In a tribute to Pope Francis and his message of hope for the Jubilee Year, elite cyclists rode through Vatican City and its ...

Van Gogh’s painting was inspired by French artist Jean-Francois Millet’s 1860 painting. But he transformed Millet’s ...

Pope Francis put the Catholic Church on the side of the environmental movement by embracing science and our responsibility ...

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

I truly believe Pope Francis will be remembered as a man of great Gospel hope and love. These are gentle memories for many — ...