Pope Leo XIV criticized prison overcrowding and insufficient inmate rehabilitation programs on Sunday as he celebrated a special Mass for detainees, guards and their families in the final event of ...

Months after purchasing the childhood home of Pope Leo XIV, the village of Dolton has designated it as an official historic ...

The world lost influential people in 2025, and some of their deaths had significant impacts. Pope Francis died in April, ...

After a quiet start, Pope Leo XI, the first American pontiff appears to have found his voice on his trip to Turkey and Lebanon.

Pope Leo XIV landed in Lebanon on Sunday aiming to bring a message of hope to its long-suffering people and bolster a crucial Christian community in the Middle East.

At an interfaith meeting in Martyr’s Square in Beirut with Lebanon's Christian patriarchs and Sunni, Shiite and Druze ...

Pope Leo may not be God’s gift to media ratings and computer clicks. When asked for a book to explain the perspective of the ...

Pope Leo may not be God’s gift to media ratings and computer clicks. When asked for a book to explain the perspective of the ...

A second Vatican study commission has determined that women should not be ordained as deacons, dealing another setback to ...

Pope Leo XIV visited Istanbul’s iconic Blue Mosque on Saturday but didn't stop to pray, as he focused more on bolstering ties with Orthodox patriarchs and promoting courageous steps for Eastern and ...

Father Jonathan Kelly — rector of St. John Vianney College Seminary in St. Paul — and seminarians from the college studying in Rome received an unexpected blessing the day before Thanksgiving: They ...

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