For those (arch)dioceses that do not mark today as the Ascension, the liturgical calendar allows celebration of the optional ...

In this moment of deepening catastrophe, Hispanic America needs its first “Peruvian” pope to act not just as a global ...

Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first U.S.-born leader of the Catholic Church elevated him to the extremely rare, and legally ...

In his first Regina Caeli from the window of the Apostolic Palace, Pope Leo XIV thanked the faithful for their affection and ...

Water began flowing from a pipe onto hundreds of acres of dry, sunbaked lake bed as California officials filled a complex of shallow ponds near the south ...

The last three popes each chose very different paths between Rome and home—sometimes confrontational, sometimes aloof.

President Donald Trump is hoping that separate phone calls Monday with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will make progress toward a ceasefire in the war in ...

Tens of thousands of well-wishers gathered for Leo XIV's inaugural mass at the Vatican, which sees him formally take up his ...