Pope Leo XIV criticized prison overcrowding and insufficient inmate rehabilitation programs on Sunday as he celebrated a special Mass for detainees, guards and their families in the final event of ...

The Vatican said an estimated 6,000 people signed up to participate in the weekend pilgrimage, including representatives from ...

Father Jonathan Kelly — rector of St. John Vianney College Seminary in St. Paul — and seminarians from the college studying in Rome received an unexpected blessing the day before Thanksgiving: They ...

Pope Leo may not be God’s gift to media ratings and computer clicks. When asked for a book to explain the perspective of the ...

Pope Leo may not be God’s gift to media ratings and computer clicks. When asked for a book to explain the perspective of the first Chicago-born pope, who was elected ...

A day before Pope Leo XIV spoke by livestream to teens at the 2025 National Catholic Youth Conference, Kristie Hughes Dugan - ...

A second Vatican study commission has determined that women should not be ordained as deacons, dealing another setback to ...

The world lost influential people in 2025, and some of their deaths had significant impacts. Pope Francis died in April, ...

On Jan. 23, hundreds of couples in Bangkok tied the knot in a mass wedding ceremony after a 2024 bill recognizing same-sex ...

The new American pontiff has been far more reserved than his outspoken predecessor. But many of their underlying progressive messages remain the same.

Months after purchasing the childhood home of Pope Leo XIV, the village of Dolton has voted to designate it as an offiial ...