VATICAN CITY (AP) — In his very first sermon as pontiff, Pope Leo XIV told the cardinals who elected him that anyone who ...

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The Vatican says leaked documents that seemingly undermined Pope Francis’ stated reason for restricting the old Latin Mass ...

For 400 years, most popes escaped the Roman summer in the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Then Francis stopped going, ...

Pope Leo XIV’s hometown is poised to acquire his childhood home. Board members in suburban Dolton outside Chicago voted ...

ROME -- Cardinal Luis Pascual Dri, the Argentine priest whom Pope Francis held up as the model confessor, has died in Buenos ...

Francis' death comes 12 years after he was chosen in 2013 as leader of worldwide Catholics, becoming the first pope from the Americas, the first Jesuit pope and the first to pick Francis as his papal ...

COMMENTARY: Thus, it was hard for me to pick up what would be Pope Francis’ last encyclical and read it with receptivity. But ...

Pope Leo XIV is marking a feast day as the Vatican launches a new campaign to boost donations from the faithful ...