This means Leo believes a united church faithful to Jesus Christ is essential to the mission of the church in proclaiming the ...

In his first speech from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica on May 8, Leo said the cardinals chose him “to be the successor ...

The Holy See’s official website Vatican.va has a new, modern design, presenting papal teaching to the world in a more ...

Antonio Conte and his squad of Napoli players had a private audience with Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday morning in the midst of ...

The Catholic leaders of Leo’s hometown hold out hope that the new pope can help turn around ailing finances and a shortage of ...

Suddenly I heard the most beautiful noise I have ever heard in my life: the sound of tens of thousands of people cheering as ...

Ilia’s mother died in the siege of Mariupol and officials in Russia put him up for adoption — until his grandmother traveled ...

Michael Ledeen, a key figure in launching the sale of US-made weapons to Iran, is pictured in his Chevy Chase, Maryland, home ...

The Holy See established diplomatic relations with the UN in 1957, representing the Vatican City state as well as the supreme authority of the Catholic Church, including the pope as bishop of Rome and ...

In 2024, the U.N. counted more than 36,000 civilian deaths in 14 armed conflicts, warning that the actual total is "likely ...

In modern times, the fiesta of La Virgen de la Puerta is lavishly celebrated in the town of Otuzco, where thousands of ...