Spain will host a UN conference next week seeking fresh backing for development aid as swingeing cuts led by US President ...

It is the US president's first Nato summit since 2019 and all 32 leaders are set to commit to a big hike in defence spending.

An endangered Hawaiian monk seal was the picture of bliss lolling about a shallow lava rock pool along Papaloa Beach with her ...

Leo appealed for unity in a triptych of messages to priests who are celebrating a special Holy Year week in Rome dedicated to ...

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

Castel Gandolfo has been for centuries a place of rest, prayer, and study for popes. Pius XII, John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul ...

Many aspects of Pope Francis’ remarkable program of ecclesial renewal weare prefigured in Hans Urs von Balthasar’s vision for ...

"The history of Peter and Paul shows us that the communion to which the Lord calls us is a unison of voices and personalities ...

"The whole church needs fraternity, which must be present in all of our relationships, whether between lay people and priests, priests and bishops, bishops and the pope," he said during his homily at ...

The Pope has ‘isolated’ breathing crisis in hospital, Vatican says - The update comes as crowds gather outside the hospital ...

Robert Prevost, elected pope Thursday, grew up in Dolton. Former neighbors and local Catholics reacted to the election of the first American pontiff in the church's 2,000-year history.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, 69, was elected the 267th Pope by the Vatican conclave on May 8, becoming the first American to lead the Roman Catholic Church. He has taken the name Pope Leo XIV.