A powerful Vatican cardinal caught up in a real estate scandal resigned suddenly on Thursday and gave up his right to take part in an eventual conclave to elect a pope, in one of the most mysterious ...

An American bishop-elect has resigned just weeks before he was due to start the job, following an allegation that he had sexually abused a minor, Catholic Church officials said on Monday.

Pope Francis "rested well during the night and woke up shortly after 8:00 a.m.," according to the Holy See Press Office on Wednesday morning. The pope, 88, is receiving treatment for bilateral ...

Pope Leo XIV urged people Wednesday not to resign themselves to the global crisis of climate change but play an active part ...

The Pope's remarks, at a speech in Castel Gondolfo near Rome, will be seen as an implied criticism of US President Donald ...