As a teenager in southern India, Susai Jesu led 4:30 a.m. prayer services in his small Catholic village before the farmers ...

The Vatican's money problems mean Pope Leo’s freedom to act as an independent moral player on the world stage is compromised ...

Pope Leo XIV is among the world leaders invited to join Donald Trump ’s Board of Peace. Initially aimed at ending the ...

Current administrator of the New York Archdiocese and archbishop from 2009 to December 2025, Cardinal Timothy Dolan has often served as the public face of Catholicism in the country, both as president ...

By Elias Turk About 350,000 people have registered to venerate the relics of St. Francis of Assisi — the first public display of the bodily remains of the beloved saint.

A seemingly esoteric dispute over the proper way to take Communion signals the rising power of more traditional voices within ...

Swiss guards Pope Francis on Monday thanked the Swiss Guard corps for their "kindness" to him and to all the tourists in the Vatican as 35 new members of ...

Catholic youths in South Sudan have been challenged to take an active role in building peace, fostering development, and living lives rooted in Christian values.

Medieval texts and frescoes show how Francis of Assisi’s legends formed – and why his call to poverty and care for creation still resonates.

Bishop Donal McKeown spoke to The Irish News after the suspension of Sunday mass services in two rural Co Tyrone churches earlier this month due to a lack of priests ...

The Vatican Gardens welcomed a new Marian mosaic and a statue of St. Rose of Lima, both created by young artists from Peru -- in a ceremony that clearly delighted Pope Leo XIV -- an American-born pope ...