The US and European leaders are placing their hopes in the Vatican to engage Russia and Ukraine in peace talks, after ...

The United States is being asked to explain why it appears to be deporting migrants from as far away as Vietnam and Cuba to South Sudan.

The new pope, the latest in a line dating back almost 2,000 years, was quickly subjected to a very modern phenomenon: no sooner had Pope Leo XIV delivered his first address than people started ...

The Vatican has a deep history of conflict mediation, with varying degrees of success. An effort by the pope to end the war ...

Francis’ papacy honored Latin American Catholics killed for their social justice work, a theologian explains – and Leo may ...

A conclave only begins to answer the question of who a pope will truly be.

A successor to Pope Francis had been elected. But there will be a short wait before his identity becomes clear.

As cardinals begin a conclave to choose Pope Francis’ successor, they must decide whether to find a pope who follows his path or forges a new one.

Before he died, Pope Francis donated one of his popemobiles to be converted into a mobile health unit to serve the children ...

Many Indigenous Catholics saw an ally in Pope Francis who championed their causes, asked forgiveness for the church’s historical wrongs and allowed them to incorporate aspects of their Native cultures ...

The media have never had so much influence on the men who pick the pope.