The Pope, as the successor of Peter, is first and foremost a pastor, one who embodies Christ's love and care for every soul. Yet, in many traditional portraits, that pastoral heart is sometimes lost ...

Brian Burch, the cofounder and former president of anti-LGBTQ+ group CatholicVote, has been confirmed as ambassador to the Vatican.

Americans are expectedly split along party lines in their support for most leading newsmakers. But there's one person U.S.

The Knights of Columbus began their 143rd annual convention on Aug. 5 at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C., where ...

Pope Leo XIV extolled the work of the Knights of Columbus in a prerecorded message for the Catholic fraternal organization’s ...

Editor in chief Sam Sawyer, S.J., reflects on praying with Pope Francis’ body in St. Peter’s Basilica.

A survivor of clergy sex abuse in Peru brought her public campaign for reform to the American hometown of Pope Leo XIV ...

Wesley Burris remembers waking to a morning of potent, white light and panic as the planet’s first atomic bomb went off in a test in the Jornada del Muerto desert near his family’s Southern New Mexico ...

Italy agreed Thursday to a Vatican plan to turn a 430-hectare (1,000-acre) field north of Rome, once the source of ...

There was euphoria in the air, but a sense of something deeper, too. Something more profound. A joy, a sense of goodness, a shared love of something eternal.

Pope Leo criticized the "illusory security" of the global nuclear deterrence system in an appeal on the 80th anniversary of ...