King Charles shared a laugh with a group of local schoolchildren during his visit to the Vatican, where he and Queen Camilla met with Pope Leo and had a historic moment.

King Charles and Queen Camilla are in Vatican City for a historic two-day State Visit. The visit is postponed from April, when during their State Visit to Italy, they made a personal trip to Vatican City to visit an ailing Pope Francis, with whom they met briefly a few weeks before his death.

Society needs artificial intelligence to respectfully and accurately portray all religious beliefs, so a coalition of faith-based schools is creating a system to test how AI programs respond to questions about religion, an apostle said Tuesday in Vatican City.

Latter-day Saint apostle Gerrit Gong attends a summit on artificial intelligence in Vatican City and urges faith leaders to evaluate A.I. ethics.

King Charles and his life partner, Queen Camilla, arrived at the Holy See for their historical state visit. On Wednesday, October 22, the British Royal Family turned to the official Instagram account to release a significant update on

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – While the number of Catholic priests and religious continues to decline, the number of lay missionaries, catechists and permanent deacons continues to increase, according to the news agency Fides.

The nomination comes as Pope Leo begins to name appointments in key Vatican positions after months of quiet discernment following his election to the papacy in May.

VATICAN CITY -- VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV canonized Venezuela’s beloved “doctor of the poor” Sunday before tens of thousands of people, offering the South American nation its first saint and a reason to celebrate amid a yearslong economic crisis and new tensions with the United States.