The Vatican has confirmed the heartbreaking news that has shaken the world, sparking a wave of tributes and expressions of ...

A Catholic boy from South Boston has a story he’ll one day be proud to share—perhaps when he’s old enough to say his first ...

In such a world, the pope argues those left behind are the poor and migrants whom he singles out for particular care. In a recent speech, the pontiff decried the “inhuman measures” that treat migrants ...

ROME -- Pope Leo XIV took aim Wednesday at skeptics who "ridicule those who speak of global warming," as he strongly embraced Pope Francis' environmental legacy and made it his own in some of his ...

A top American cardinal celebrated a traditional Latin Mass on Saturday in St. Peter's Basilica with the explicit permission ...

Pope Leo XIV has begun correcting some of Pope Francis' more questionable financial reforms and decisions, canceling a law Monday that had concentrated financial power in the Vatican bank.

Francis has pushed a series of reforms since he became pope 10 years ago. Pope Francis said on Sunday that the Catholic Church is open to everyone, including homosexuals, and that it has a duty to ...