The pontiff offers something rare: a pastor-leader urging the church to reclaim the dignity of every person — not as an ...

In fact, the Wikimedia Foundation announced Dec. 2 that "Deaths in 2025" -- an entry that includes Pope Francis -- was their ...

The women meet all the requirements except one: they're not men. As deacons, they could preach at Mass and preside over baptisms, weddings and funerals.

The Vatican said an estimated 6,000 people signed up to participate in the weekend pilgrimage, including representatives from ...

Pope Leo XIV has criticized prison overcrowding during a special Mass for detainees, guards and their families.

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

Archbishop Georg Gänswein, former secretary of Pope Benedict XVI, said he hopes the beatification process will begin soon for ...

A Vatican report on women deacons published last week said that women could not be admitted to the diaconate “understood as a ...

The anniversary offers an opportunity to reflect not just on what the document says, but on the young papacy of Leo XIV.

Pope Leo XIV marked the popular Marian feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe by asking that Mary to intercede in the effort to ...

Reclaiming American Catholicism,' coming in at nearly 400 pages, is a comprehensive and meticulous synopsis of many of the ...

Pope Leo XIV has strongly criticised prison overcrowding and inadequate inmate rehabilitation programmes, delivering his message during a special Mass for detainees, guards, and their families at the ...