VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV is facing his first major crisis with traditionalist Catholics, after a breakaway group attached ...

A seemingly esoteric dispute over the proper way to take Communion signals the rising power of more traditional voices within ...

Medieval texts and frescoes show how Francis of Assisi’s legends formed – and why his call to poverty and care for creation ...

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, warned that blogs and online ...

New York was a key appointment not just because its bishop is effectively the leader of the Catholic Church in America but ...

Last Wednesday, Jan. 7, Pope Leo XIV gave two talks, one at the weekly general audience and the other to the cardinals at the start of their consistory, that focused on the reception of the Second ...

Pope Leo XIV holds a private audience with Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Nov. 19 at the Vatican. They disagree on whether Illinois’ medical-aid-in-dying bill, which Pritzker signed on Dec. 12, was discussed ...

In October, Pope Leo XIV addressed issues concerning the sanctity of life. "Someone who says, 'I'm against abortion' but says, 'I am in favor of the death penalty' is not really pro-life," he said.

Mr. Gibson is the director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University. Since his election in May as the first American pope, Leo XIV has become a political and temperamental ...

Assessing the impact of the Catholic Church's first American Pope was front and center at the 106th annual meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association (ACHA), which met in Pope Leo XIV's ...

ROME — Some cardinals and faithful who have a devotion to the traditional Roman rite have expressed concern that the liturgy appears to be sidelined in the extraordinary consistory currently underway ...

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