The Vatican says the pope still intends to fly to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru on Nov. 6. Washington took 81 hours to say a ...

Doctors removed the lower lobe of the Holy Father’s right lung on Tuesday, and the Vatican says the operation went well. It’s ...

A year after a New Orleans mob lynched 11 Italian immigrants, Benjamin Harrison gave America its first Columbus Day. The ...

Hours after meeting Pope Leo XIV, the military archbishop bound Catholic soldiers as he would on abortion. The conservative ...

I have decided to have surgery,” the 71-year-old pope told St. Peter’s Square. His candor caps a half-century turn in how the ...

Opening a weeklong Vatican summit on the exhortation’s 10th anniversary, the pope put mercy and the freedom of the Holy Spirit at the center. Critics hoping for a rollback heard none of it.

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The pope’s message came two days after the Pentagon set a Dec. 3 firing squad for Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan. Cardinal ...

JD Vance’s top donor also lumped the pope in with Barack Obama, saying “Obama knows the Democrats have no ideas, but they can ...

Minutes before announcing his lung surgery, Pope Leo XIV preached on a king who refuses to cancel the wedding. In 2013, ...

Before the conclave, Cardinal Robert Prevost praised Bernardin and Cupich and said a pro-death-penalty Catholic can’t claim ...