The Vatican says leaked documents that seemingly undermined Pope Francis’ stated reason for restricting the old Latin Mass were only part of the evidence he consulted before cracking down on ...

Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound more than a decade ago, died in ...

Pope Leo XIV has spoken publicly about his childhood in Chicago for the first time as pontiff. Leo recalled Thursday that ...

The “Mass for the Care of Creation,” inspired by Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’, has prayers and Mass readings designed ...

The pontiff will stay on the hilltop Vatican property “for a period of rest” from the afternoon of July 6 to the afternoon of ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. ROME (AP) — The debate in the Catholic Church over the celebration of the old Latin Mass ...

The announcement from the Vatican was made this morning. Current Archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith is the only other Sri Lankan Bishop to hold a post in the Vatican during the recent ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Sunday celebrated a special feast day traditionally used by the Catholic Church to drum up donations from the faithful, with the Vatican under the first American pope ...

Follow our coverage from the Vatican on the second day of conclave as cardinals return to the Sistine Chapel to vote for a new pope.

Here we go again. This week, the Senate unveiled, honed and passed its version of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” and it’s a fiscal monstrosity. What was already an oversized me… ...

One youth and six staff members at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey were taken to local hospitals Wednesday morning after a suspected overdose and the possible exposure to an “unidentified ...