VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, on Thursday made his first American bishop appointment as he ...

The Gospel parable of the "wasteful sower" who casts seeds on fertile soil as well as on a rocky path "is an image of the way ...

The late Pope Francis renewed his prayers for “an immediate cessation of the current conflict” in the Holy Land in a message ...

Pope Leo likes Wordle. People who play it like words, and they probably try to be precise when they’re speaking. That will ...

A priest at the only Roman Catholic parish in Gaza has said there has been no bread for many weeks and what little flour ...

Far-right Romanian presidential candidate George Simion lost a legal bid Thursday to annul last weekend's run-off election ...

Pope Leo XIV appeals to Israel to allow humanitarian aid to enter Gaza, calling the situation in the Palestinian enclave ‘yet more worrying and saddening.’ Full story: ...

The UN said Wednesday it had “dispatched” around 90 trucks carrying aid into Gaza, as international pressure intensified over ...

A ceremony transferring sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius was called off ...

Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed dozens of Palestinians since dawn, medical sources said, as limited supplies of humanitarian aid trickled into the Palestinian territory after Israel eased its ...