In his very first sermon as pontiff, Pope Leo XIV told the cardinals who elected him that anyone who exercises authority in the Catholic Church must “make oneself small,” so that only Christ remains.

The hilltop town, located just south of Rome on Lake Albano, had not hosted a pope in residence since Pope Francis chose to ...

A firefifghter searches for pockets of embers and digs them out at the forest fire on the Saalfelder Höhe, near ...

Pope Leo has appointed a French archbishop as the new leader of the Vatican's commission on clergy sexual abuse, in the US ...