It came as a big surprise when Catholic cardinals picked an American to be the successor of Pope Francis back in early May. But as Leo XIV begins his papacy, he’s offered few — if any — real surprises ...

Pope Leo XIV decided Thursday to declare St. John Henry Newman a “doctor” of the church, bestowing one of the Catholic Church ...

Msgr. Pegoraro has a medical degree from the University of Padua, Italy, and a moral theology degree from the Gregorian ...

Khader Qassis travelled 32 hours from the West Bank, passing military checkpoints across three countries, to join hundreds of ...

Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday received a rock star’s welcome at the Vatican’s festival of Catholic influencers — priests, nuns and ...

Italy has agreed to a Vatican plan to turn a plot of land north of Rome into a solar farm that will generate enough ...

One new American archbishop says having a pope from Chicago is something to think about, since “Catholicism in Chicago has ...

With 17 bishops attending this year including Cardinal Raymond Burke, the annual conference did not disappoint!

It was four years ago that Father Cosimo Schena decided to create a social media profile to proclaim the Gospel in a friendly ...

More than 50 sisters of Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity are in Rome this week for the Catholic Church’s Jubilee of ...

A Vatican opinion released shortly before Pope Francis died advises against public church listings of clergy members deemed to have been credibly accused of sexual abuse — which virtually every ...

A victims advocacy group has recycled allegations of coverup against Pope Leo XIV despite revelations that the accusations ...