The post to the pontifical commission for the Vatican City State is not hugely influential, but the appointment nonetheless ...

The Pope's remarks, at a speech in Castel Gondolfo near Rome, will be seen as an implied criticism of US President Donald ...

The Pope acknowledged "resistance in some parts of the world" to permanently remove a priest who abuses a child, the group ...

Britain's King Charles and Pope Leo XIV prayed together in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel on Thursday, in the first joint ...

Cardinal Schönborn, a theologian who led the Archdiocese of Vienna for 30 years, helped write the Catechism of the Catholic ...

The 63-year-old Austrian priest, who has served as apostolic administrator for the Archdiocese of Vienna since January, will ...

Pope Francis on Saturday installed 13 new cardinals, including the first African-American to hold the high rank, further expanding the pontiff's impact on the group that will one day elect his ...

(RNS) — Those who hoped that Pope Leo XIV would back away from Pope Francis’ concerns about global warming and the environment were severely disappointed last week. Instead, Leo firmly embraced the ...

A Vatican commission for the protection of children has said the mishandling by the Catholic Church’s leaders of sexual abuse ...

Here's what's true — and what's false — about rumors that Leo is replacing New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who called Kirk a "modern-day St. Paul." ...

The Vatican rarely gives reasons for a bishop's removal, even in cases involving abuse, preferring to say simply that the pope accepted the bishop's resignation. "The lack of accountability for Church ...

The Vatican's child protection commission accused senior Catholic leaders on Thursday of being too slow to help victims of ...