After 12 years of sitting unused without its holidaymaker during the papacy of the late Pope Francis, who preferred to take time off in the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV has now revived this 16th-century ...

ROME -- Pope Leo XIV celebrated on Wednesday what has been dubbed the first “green” papal Mass, using a new set of prayers ...

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Pope Leo interrupted a two-week vacation on Wednesday to celebrate a special Mass exhorting Catholics to exercise care for ...

I was thinking of something Pope Francis said a few years ago when the Vatican released “Pathways for the Implementation ...

The appointment of five members from Africa to the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies ...

Local churches and bishops worldwide will be instrumental in helping implement the proposals and foster the spirit of the ...

Pope Francis recognized Floribert Bwana Kositi, a customs officer killed in 2007 for refusing a bribe, as a martyr of the ...

More than 160 people still missing days after deadly Texas floods ...

The remains of a Congolese customs worker who was killed for resisting a bribe and recently beatified by the Vatican were transferred from a public cemetery to a cathedral in Congo’s eastern city of ...

Experience the magic of Rome at night, from visiting the Colosseum to exploring the city's vibrant nightlife. Rome is ...

About six months into the second Trump presidency, Republicans are charting a collision course with the Catholic Church.