Catholic cardinals gathered in Vatican City to cast their first vote as part of the conclave to elect the successor to Pope Francis. After the garrulous Francis, the cardinals may conclude that ...

The Pope told Lebanon’s bishops, clergy and pastoral workers that Christians can remain steadfast in hope “even when ...

Early on Sunday, we learned the Vatican’s chartered Airbus 320, which had ferried Pope Leo XIV, his entourage and 80 journalists to Turkey on Thanksgiving Day, was safe for travel after its software ...

Officials are yet to determine the cause of the blaze that ripped through a high-rise residential complex on Wednesday.

Pope Leo XIV has said that both Christians and Muslims “have been slaughtered” in Nigeria, linking the violence to extremist groups, economic and land-related conflicts. His comments come as ...

Activists with Coordination of the Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon stand next to a giant inflatable capybara, a mammal native to South America, during a protest Oct. 14, 2025, to ...

The author of Aid to the Church in Need’s 2025 Religious Freedom Report, Marta Petrosillo, is coming to Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin’s defense after remarks he made regarding ...

King Charles III is the head of the Church of England, but he prayed in public with the head of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo, during a visit to the Vatican. The service in the Sistine Chapel marked ...

King Charles III became the first British monarch to pray publicly with a pope in 500 years during his state visit to the Vatican on Thursday, after a bruising week back home with the continued ...

As Catholics, we all called to pray and work for peace in the Holy Land. On Sept. 29, President Donald Trump unveiled a 20-point peace plan for Gaza and Israel, offering a complex proposal that ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — As Israel and Hamas signed a ceasefire agreement that observers hope will finally bring peace to the beleaguered region, the Catholic Church is faced with reestablishing weakened ...