For 400 years, most popes escaped the Roman summer in the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Then Francis stopped going, ...

The debate in the Catholic Church over the celebration of the old Latin Mass is heating up just as Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate ...

Delivered just six weeks after Leo's election, it creates a broad picture of a new era unfolding in the Catholic Church.

Michael Pham is the first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV. And in another first, Pham is the first person of Vietnamese ...

According to the apostolic constitution “Universi Dominici Gregis,” which governs procedures when the papacy is vacant, a ...

Francis noted that in the novel, “everyone seems listless and passive, it seems obvious that the sick should be gotten rid of ...

Readers can look to the past to discover more about the man who became the first truly American Pope.

Many aspects of Pope Francis’ remarkable program of ecclesial renewal weare prefigured in Hans Urs von Balthasar’s vision for ...

"The whole church needs fraternity, which must be present in all of our relationships, whether between lay people and priests ...