Victor Mooney, a former Long Islander who rowed 5,000 miles across the Atlantic in 2015, is taking his thirst for adventure ...

Pope Leo likes Wordle. People who play it like words, and they probably try to be precise when they’re speaking. That will ...

The election of a first North American pontiff came after the death of the first Latin American pope and signaled a ...

Their trip included visits to major basilicas in Rome and sacred sites in Assisi, including the Pontifical Sanctuary of the ...

Pope Leo XIV has named Father Renzo Pegoraro, a bioethicist who earned a medical degree before entering the seminary, to be ...

Pope Leo XIV has appointed as head of the Vatican’s bioethics think tank Monsignor Renzo Pegoraro, the longtime deputy of its ...

The Vatican said some 200,000 people attended the Mass at St. Peter’s Square, which marked the start of the pontificate of ...

As Catholic cardinals meet to choose a new pope, they will face a big question: Is it time, after three consecutive non-Italian pontiffs, to give the papacy back to the nation that held it for most of ...

Latest news and live updates as the election process for the next pope continues. The cardinals met for their first conclave ...

Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio attended Pope Leo XIV's inaugural mass in St. Peter's Square, ...

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

The sporting world mourned the death of Francis − a lifelong soccer fan. The new pope is more of a baseball guy.