Leo showed himself in perfect lockstep with Francis when he published his first major teaching document last month, on the ...

Pope Leo's recent criticisms of U.S. President Donald Trump's anti-immigration policies are emboldening Catholic efforts to ...

Pope Leo XIV has bestowed one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors on St. John Henry Newman, declaring him a doctor of the church ...

As he presses his wife to convert from her native Hinduism, Vice President JD Vance might try better adhering to his newly ...

Vatican City remains overwhelmingly male with women constituting only about 5 percent of its population. Recent appointments by Pope Francis signal slow change amid deep-rooted religious traditions.

A century-old Gothic church on Chicago’s South Side is one example. Built for a mostly German Catholic parish and initially ...

The Catholic Church is at the crossroad. Pope John XXIII pushed us into the modern world and challenged us to embrace change ...

Rome's cathedral at the Lateran has forever been considered the most important church in all of Christianity. But the popes ...

The delegation of Buddhist groups to the Vatican attending the 60th anniversary celebration of Nostra Astate and a major in ...

The Vatican's former ambassador to France goes on trial in Paris on Tuesday accused of molesting four men in the latest sex scandal to rock the Roman Catholic church.