A leaked draft document on revising liturgical norms in the Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, has stirred backlash for ...

Bishop Michael Martin has pursued new restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass and other liturgical changes that have ...

Pope Leo XIV will formally begin his ministry as bishop of Rome with a liturgy steeped in tradition and rich in symbolism May 18.

New Pope Leo XIV began celebrating his first mass as head of the Catholic Church ... world's 1.4 billion Catholics, after a secret conclave by his fellow cardinals in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel.

For more than 26 years, Pope John Paul II traveled the world with a silver pastoral staff topped with a dramatic, abstract ...

Pope Francis has been laid to rest, the conclave has been assembled and, after due deliberation by the participating cardinals, the world at last has seen white smoke wafting from the Sistine Chapel ...

Pope Leo XIV embraces each of the Cardinal electors just after ... Catholic social teachings. Leo XIII was remembered largely for his famed 1891 “Rerum Novarum” — Latin for “On New Things ...

VATICAN CITY — Jewish leaders got up-front seats at Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration Mass. An American rabbi there and other representatives saw that as a hopeful sign for an upswing of Catholic-Jewish ...

Pope Leo XIV, the Chicago-born Augustinian missionary Robert Prevost, celebrated his first Mass in the Sistine Chapel.

Francis himself quipped that his successor would be John XXIV, after the progressive Vatican II-era ... some Catholic groups that can be considered traditionalists,” Regoli said. A new pope ...

Pope Francis's death at the age of 88 means the Catholic Church must choose a new leader. Here's how cardinals elect the next pontiff at the conclave.