The pope is working to change some of the rules that have caused financial stress within the church. Leo has started ...

Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday publicly voiced his support of journalism and free speech and the need to protect both as they face ...

Pope Leo XIV has criticized how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

The Vatican’s “trial of the century” is heading into the appeals phase. The complicated investigation was launched to get to ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a ...

Translated from Italian by The Associated Press, the chats suggest these women helped persuade Monsignor Alberto Perlasca, an original prime suspect, to change his story and implicate his former boss, ...

First American pope warns news agencies face economic collapse while consumers lose ability to distinguish facts from fiction ...

(RNS) — The new US ambassador to the Holy See may faithfully represent the White House's conservative agenda, but his appointment's real purpose seems to be to sow more discord at home. (RNS) — On Aug ...

The Vatican is inaugurating an ambitious educational center inspired by Pope Francis’ ecological legacy, a 55-acre utopian experiment in sustainable farming, vocational training and environmental ...

Italy has produced 217 popes, by far the most of any country, followed by France and Germany. Many modern countries, especially in Asia and Africa, have never had a pope due to Catholicism's later ...