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

Abuse experts and survivors express a mix of tentative hopes and low expectations for how Pope Leo might address disciplining ...

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

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 ...

AT A ceremony in 2016 where he presented his credentials as Israel’s ambassador to the Vatican, the writer gifts ... by Jews since the Holocaust. Coming nearly 80 years after the end of World ...

The former Cardinal Robert Prevost vowed to work for unity. “I think he will inspire,” said Susan Hanssen, a professor who was born in Chicago and just arrived in Rome to teach.

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, vowed Sunday to work for unity so that the Catholic Church becomes a symbol of peace in the world, during an inaugural Mass in St. Peter’s Square.

The Vatican said 200,000 were on hand Sunday ... “Rome always felt like home for a Catholic, but now coming here and seeing one of our own on the throne of Peter ... it almost makes Jesus himself more ...

Pope Leo XIV gave his first homily at a Mass on Friday, one day after he was selected by a conclave of cardinals at the Vatican to lead ... warned against reducing Jesus to "a kind of charismatic ...

"This is more than a Catholic triumph; it’s a cultural watershed for the United States," writes Christopher Hale.