Around the world, we are “witnessing an alarming rise in attempts to discredit, politicize or suppress scientific knowledge,” the Vatican says in a new Pontifical Academy of Sciences document ...

During an audience of religious sisters belonging to several orders, Pope Leo XIV told the group that rootedness in Christ ...

If Jesus trusts us, then we too can trust one another, in his name,” Pope Leo XIV said, extending his call to unity to all ...

In a way, we have rewritten the history of art,” explained Barbara Jatta, director of the Vatican Museums, during a ...

COMMENTARY: Thus, it was hard for me to pick up what would be Pope Francis’ last encyclical and read it with receptivity. But ...

The consecration began at churches and chapels throughout Croatia, initiated by church bells ringing for five minutes before ...

U.S. President Donald Trump says both Israel and Iran violated ceasefire with attacks but later declared it was in effect.

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, presided over his inaugural Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday in front of a crowd of tens of thousands. World leaders including Vice President JD Vance ...

St. Mary’s expanded in the late 1950s to keep up with its growing numbers, replacing its old church from the 1880s with a modern building. The future Cardinal Robert Prevost in second grade.

On the issue of Vatican-China relations, Pope Francis went one step further than his predecessors. The pontiff authorised and approved the efforts of Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy See’s Cardinal ...

The Vatican kept the basilica open through the night to accommodate them, but it wasn’t enough. When the doors closed to the general public at 7 p.m. Friday, mourners were turned away in droves.

VATICAN CITY — World leaders and Catholic faithful bade farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral Saturday that highlighted his concern for people on the “most peripheral of the peripheries” and ...