It came as a big surprise when Catholic cardinals picked an American to be the successor of Pope Francis back in early May. But as Leo XIV begins his papacy, he’s offered few — if any — real surprises ...

One new American archbishop says having a pope from Chicago is something to think about, since “Catholicism in Chicago has ...

With 17 bishops attending this year including Cardinal Raymond Burke, the annual conference did not disappoint!

It was four years ago that Father Cosimo Schena decided to create a social media profile to proclaim the Gospel in a friendly ...

More than 50 sisters of Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity are in Rome this week for the Catholic Church’s Jubilee of ...

Digital this, digital that. Digital, or so it seems, have our lives become. As technology goes, so do we. Or must we? Just ...

Italy has agreed to a Vatican plan to turn a 430-hectare (1,000-acre) plot of land north of Rome into a vast solar farm that ...

Islamist terrorists killed 49 Christians during a church service in Komanda, a town in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The attack was carried out by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a group ...

Thousands of U.S. teens gathered in Rome for the Jubilee of Youth, finding inspiration, community, and a renewed sense of ...

Pope Leo XIV will declare John Henry Newman a “doctor” of the church, bestowing one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors ...

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday decided to declare St. John Henry Newman a “doctor” of the church, bestowing one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors on the deeply influential 19th century Anglican ...

Pope Leo XIV surprised tens of thousands of young Catholics on Tuesday and showed up unexpectedly at a Holy Year welcome ...