During a private audience with Pope Leo XIV, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva invited the pope to the upcoming U ...

The Vatican took the unusual step on Monday of announcing it had named judges to decide the fate of a famous ex-Jesuit artist, whose mosaics decorate basilicas around the world and who was accused by ...

Pope Leo XIV shunned this “degrading” media practice at a Vatican conference with dozens of journalists Thursday.

ROME -- U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Saturday that the Vatican could be a venue for Russia-Ukraine peace talks, taking up the Holy See's longstanding offer after Pope Leo XIV vowed to ...

Pope Leo XIV's first papal trip abroad will be to Turkey and Lebanon Nov. 27-Dec. 2, the Vatican press office announced.

ROME -- Pope Leo XIV urged hundreds of thousands of young people on Saturday to have the courage to make radical choices to do good as he presided over his first big encounter with the next generation ...

At a United Nations high-level meeting in New York, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher of the Vatican warned that “technology ...

Roman Catholic cardinals from around the world will gather in Rome on May 7 and begin a conclave to elect the next pope, the Vatican announced Monday. A group of more than 180 cardinals made the ...

VATICAN CITY -- Black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday, signaling that no pope had been elected as 133 cardinals opened the secretive, centuries-old ritual to choose a new ...

L'Osservatore Romano, the daily newspaper of the Vatican, has launched an online edition available in both Italian and English. It's the paper's first daily presence on the Web in its 150-year history ...