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

U.S. Vice President JD Vance met on Monday at the Vatican with Pope Leo XIV, the first leader of the global Catholic Church ...

The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and lesbian faithful. Some wished he’d gone further.

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 ...

In 2015, on the flight from Cuba to Washington, D.C., the pope was told that some considered him a communist pope. To this, Francis noted that he had never said “one more thing that wasn’t in ...

Pope Francis, who died Monday at age 88 ... the church secretly helped mediate a thaw in relations between the United States and Cuba. After more than five decades of Cold War hostilities ...

ROME — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Saturday that the Vatican could be a venue for Russia-Ukraine peace talks, ...

The former first lady chose to rewear a bespoke suit she used for Jimmy Carter and Queen Elizabeth II's funerals.

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

Pope Francis enters the San Cristobal Cathedral in Havana, Cuba, on Sept. 20, 2015. The problem with capitalism in Latin America isn’t so much the free market, but rather the disgraceful reality ...