For those (arch)dioceses that do not mark today as the Ascension, the liturgical calendar allows celebration of the optional ...

For more than 26 years, Pope John Paul II traveled the world with a silver pastoral staff topped with a dramatic, abstract ...

Pope Leo XIV meets with officials of the Vatican Secretariat of State, and invites them to never let ambition or rivalry ...

Sister Maria Gloria Riva from a cloistered, contemplative monastery in the small state of San Marino in Italy, was the ...

In an event Monday honoring a Romanian Greek Catholic cardinal and martyr known for his efforts to save Jews during the ...

Ever since Pope John XXIII was elected in 1958, the successors of St. Peter have established a pattern: pope as disruptor, ...

The last pontiff to wear it was Pope Paul VI in 1963, after which he decided ... during his inaugural Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican March 19, 2013. With his fisherman's ring and ...

By Linda Bordoni Greeting delegations from 131 countries from every part of the world gathered in the Vatican for the Jubilee ...

However, "Let this place not be clouded by ambition or rivalry; instead, let it be a true community of faith and charity, of ...

In his audience with members of the Vatican Secretariat of State on Thursday, Pope Leo XIV thanked them for their support in ...

"Through theological dialogue and with the help of God, we will gain a better understanding of the mystery that unites us." ...