The Catholic Church in Vietnam welcomed with great joy and hope the ordination of 40 new priests during June, the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

For 400 years, most popes escaped the Roman summer in the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Then Francis stopped going, ...

Pope Leo will revive a centuries-old tradition on Sunday by taking a holiday at Castel Gandolfo, where residents of the lakeside town hope for a tourism boost after the late Pope Francis shunned ...

A new rite published by the Vatican on Thursday will allow priests to celebrate a Mass to exhort Catholics to exercise care ...

Occasionally they remember to call him by his new name, Pope Leo XIV, but it’s unfamiliar to their tongue. One of the guests ...

Officials in Dolton, Ill., called the purchase a rare opportunity. But some residents questioned whether the village, ...

Since white smoke billowed in May from the Sistine Chapel and Pope Leo XIV was elected Pope Francis' successor, the new ...

The Vatican called for sweeping reforms to a global financial system it says punishes the poor and rewards the powerful.

Almost four years after Pope Francis opened the Catholic Church's path toward synodality -- a term many in the church had ...

Creating environmental injustices are not what God had in mind when he entrusted creation to humanity, Pope Leo XIV said.

Victor Mooney's latest advocacy trek included Catholic shrines and former concentration camps in Poland before a surprise ...