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

During his papacy, Pope Francis encouraged the clergy to use the "digital continent" to broaden their evangelical work. They seem to have paid attention: over the last few years, a number ...

Pope Leo XIV appointed Luciano Maza Huamán the new Archbishop of Piura, the Peruvian diocese previously headed by a member of ...

Pope Leo XIV criticized prison overcrowding and insufficient inmate rehabilitation programs on Sunday as he celebrated a special Mass for detainees, guards and their families in the final event of the ...

Activists and academics advocating for the repatriation of artifacts “stolen by Pope Pius XI and his missionaries” from ...

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

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

On Sunday, Pope Leo XIV called for nations to give out amnesties and pardons to prisoners during the Jubilee year.

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.

A Swedish youth choir marked the feast of St. Lucy by singing at a Mass at the Vatican on Thursday, Dec. 11. Students from ...

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

Roman Oleksiv was seriously injured and his mother died when Russian missiles struck a hospital in central Ukraine in 2022 ...