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

A new rite published by the Vatican on Thursday will allow priests to celebrate a Mass to exhort Catholics to exercise care ...

If Jesus trusts us, then we too can trust one another, in his name,” Pope Leo XIV said, extending his call to unity to all ...

COMMENTARY: Thus, it was hard for me to pick up what would be Pope Francis’ last encyclical and read it with receptivity. But ...

The Vatican launches a new campaign to boost donations from the faithful with an American-style publicity pitch, an effort ...

Pope Leo XIV presents the pallium to Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of Washington during Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the ...

Pope Leo XIV is marking a feast day as the Vatican launches a new campaign to boost donations from the faithful ...

Many aspects of Pope Francis’ remarkable program of ecclesial renewal weare prefigured in Hans Urs von Balthasar’s vision for ...

Marius Borg Høiby, the son of Norway's crown Princess, has been charged with rape and sexual assault. Høiby, stepson of the heir to the throne, Crown Prince Haakon, has been under scrutiny since he ...

Pope Leo XIV doubled down on Friday on his appeal for unity in the polarized Catholic Church, urging priests to act in ...

According to a statement from the Vatican, Peter’s Pence also represents a gesture “of communion and participation in the pope’s mission to proclaim the Gospel, promote peace, and spread ...

Pope Francis blesses a tree during a visit to the Jesuit-run Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome Oct. 12, 2017. To the left is Jesuit Fr. Arturo Sosa, superior general of the Jesuits.