Peter is then told to put on his cloak. The robe in Scripture is often equated with righteousness. Thus the instruction of ...

A view of the Papal or Apostolic Palace, a historic summer retreat for popes in the lakeside town of Castel Gandolfo, about ...

Pope Leo XIV will head off on holiday Sunday after a measured first two months at the helm of the Catholic Church, marked by ...

Catholic priests will now be able to celebrate Mass "for the care of creation" after the Vatican announced that a new ...

Pope Leo XIV, 69, is the person to whom lots of people look when they want to come in contact with God. John Prevost, 71, is ...

For 400 years, most popes escaped the Roman summer in the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Then Francis stopped going, ...

The U.S. embassy’s annual celebration, held June 30, commemorated the 41st anniversary of formal diplomatic relations between ...

The Vatican says leaked documents that seemingly undermined Pope Francis’ stated reason for restricting the old Latin Mass ...

Pope Leo XIV on July 3 appointed two prominent cardinals, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, and ...

Leo XIV, a native of Chicago, can use his American upbringing to enhance significantly his papal ministry, but he must be ...

Beneath a canopy of Roman pines, Americans in Rome celebrated the Fourth of July this year with something more than barbecue and fireworks: the historic election of the first pope born and raised in ...

Speaking on the June 29 solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, Pope Leo XIV also called for maintaining ecclesial unity while ...