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 voted to designate it as an offiial ...

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

The new American pontiff has been far more reserved than his outspoken predecessor. But many of their underlying progressive messages remain the same.

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

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.

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 ...

“Speaking softly” is what Popes traditionally do. You have to go back to the sixteenth century and Pope Julius II, founder of ...

Tis the season of giving, so what are you getting the baseball fan in your life? On Thanksgiving, the world’s most famous White Sox fan -- Pope Leo XIV -- received many gifts from those onboard the ...

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

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 ...