Two gunmen targeted Jewish beachgoers at an event celebrating the first day of Hanukkah in an apparent terror attack at ...

Pope Leo XIV criticized prison overcrowding and insufficient inmate rehabilitation programs on Sunday as he celebrated a ...

For the world's 1.4 billion Catholics and for millions of other people as well, the Catholic Church's 2025 was primarily ...

As Nativity scenes depicting ICE draw attention and outrage, faith leaders are grappling with politics in religion and urging a closer reading of the Christmas story.

The Court of the Gentiles was the place outside the Temple in Jerusalem that was accessible to non-Jews. It was the place ...

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

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

The Governorate of Vatican City State has announced the origins of the fir tree and Nativity scene that will adorn St.

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 recent meeting at the Vatican between Governor JB Pritzker and Pope Leo raises troubling questions about the Church’s ...

In the evocative new documentary Nuns vs the Vatican, director Lorena Luciano sets out to illuminate the stories of silence, ...

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