The Vatican doesn’t tax its residents or issue bonds, and it's got a very big budget problem. It primarily finances the ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV ... universal Catholic Church, popes delegate the day-to-day governance of running of the diocese of Roman to a vicar. Sunday's ceremonies at the St. John Lateran ...

The Augustinian order has been in the spotlight since May 8, the day one of its own was elected pope. Interest in Pope Leo ...

had become the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church, taking the name Leo XIV That makes the Chicago-born missionary the first U.S. pope John Prevost described his brother as being very concerned ...

Leo appears to see the Catholic Church not as a theory to be tested or a program to be carried out but as a thing to be lived — haphazardly, inconsistently, often with more fervor than clarity.

On May 8, the day Pope Leo XIV was elected as our new Holy Father, he told the faithful, “Today is the day of the Prayer of ...

Following the closure of a decades-old San Antonio Catholic school in May, another prominent Catholic institution is ...

Seminary schoolmate Father Thomas Becket Franks saw the signs that Robert Prevost was special more than five decades ago.

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV ... unity so that the Catholic Church becomes a symbol of peace in the world, offering a message of communion during an inaugural Mass in St. Peter’s Square ...

St. Francesco (Francis) Antonio Fasani was born as Giovanneillo in Lucera, Italy in 1681, the son of Giuseppe Fasani and Isabella Della Monaca. He entered the Conventual Franciscans in 1695 and ...