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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

“Speaking softly” is what Popes traditionally do. You have to go back to the sixteenth century and Pope Julius II, founder of ...

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