Pope Leo XIV returned to the Vatican on July 22 around 9 p.m. local time after spending more than two weeks at the papal residence in Castel Gandolfo. The Holy See Press Office officially confirmed ...

As the first American pope takes the helm, we revisit an open letter published in 1978 by peace activist Blase A. Bonpane to ...

The Israel Defense Forces said on Wednesday its strike on Gaza’s only Catholic church last week was an accident, following an investigation into the incident.

After more than a year of vacancy, on July 11 Pope Leo XIV appointed Father Michel Guillaud to head the Diocese of ...

Half a million young believers are expected in Rome next week for the Vatican's "Jubilee of Youth" during a "Holy Year" announced by the Catholic church, organisers said Wednesday.

Half a million young people are expected to pour into Rome next week for the biggest event of the 2025 Holy Year: a weeklong ...

In Bangladesh, grief and shock gripped the capital, Dhaka, after a military jet crashed into Milestone School and College on ...

Peering at the sunlit skies through a Vatican-owned space telescope and calling the last surviving member of the Apollo 11 spaceflight mission was how Pope Leo XIV celebrated the anniversary of the ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The “barbarity of war” and forced displacement of people have to end, and civilians and places of ...

An Israeli shell accidentally struck the Holy Family Church in Gaza, killing three and injuring 10. The incident drew global ...

Oklahoma Roman Catholic leaders explore the commonalities between Pope Leo XIV and Blessed Stanley Rother, men who each ...

The U.N. human rights office says more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed since May while trying to get food in the ...