King Charles and Pope Leo prayed together in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel on Thursday, in the first joint worship including a British monarch and a Catholic pontiff since King Henry VIII broke away ...

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Lebanon needed this embrace.” The words went out over a social media platform, made more poignant for the accompanying image ...

With Catholicism’s long connection with the arts, from Michelangelo making the Sistine Chapel a place of transcendence to the Vatican Museums’ huge troves of artifacts and art, it’s worth looking at ...

Michelangelo’s famous frescoes at the Sistine Chapel were originally met with scorn, concern, and controversy.

At the time of his election in May and in the months immediately following, this correspondent expressed a cautious ...

Pope Leo XIV has revealed his immediate, heartfelt reaction upon being elected leader of the 1.4 billion-member Catholic ...

For an institution that measures epochs in centuries rather than electoral cycles, six months may seem a modest window to assess a pontificate. Yet as Pope Leo XIV marks that milestone Nov. 8, a ...

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican on Saturday returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada as part of the Catholic Church’s reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture in the ...

We are all invited to overcome the scandal of the divisions that unfortunately still exist and to nurture the desire for unity for which the Lord Jesus prayed and gave his life,” Pope Leo XIV said.

His first Christmas as Pope gives Leo a platform to define his papacy ...