The new pope appears to be a big hit with visitors to the Vatican, yet he's not generating much headline news, despite his ...

The Catholic Church says the appearance of an image of Jesus Christ on a ceremonial bread during a Holy Communion in India is ...

Pope Leo XIV receives U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance at the Vatican May 20. (Photo: Office of the Vice President of the United States/Wikimedia Commons) A string of high-level bilateral meetings ...

Two masterpieces, centuries apart, reflect a theological insight centuries old: Mary was given not only to John, but to the ...

COMMENTARY: Today’s feast is directly linked to the jubilee years of 1975 and 2000, making its observance this jubilee year a ...

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

By Jed Nelson There are moments in history that are so important, so joyful or tragic that we remember exactly where we were ...

Using the heart as a powerful representation of the embodied core of human existence has biblical, and even pre-Christian roots. Pope Francis makes this exceedingly clear in what is in many ways a ...

The whole nature of Chrisitian martyrdom has shifted in the 21st century, according to Robert Royal, author of the new book “The Martyrs of the New Millennium.” ...

Leo paid a visit to the Borgo Laudato Si, an educational sustainability project that grew out of Francis’ 2015 environmental encyclical “Praised Be,” the Vatican said. The center is located in the ...

When people come to me with problems, I have a hard time figuring out where they’re coming from because my family life was so easy, my parents were so wonderful.” In contrast, he points to a priest ...