The US and European leaders are placing their hopes in the Vatican to engage Russia and Ukraine in peace talks, after ...

The Vatican has a deep history of conflict mediation, with varying degrees of success. An effort by the pope to end the war ...

Pope Leo XIV’s proposed role hosting Ukraine-Russia peace talks in the Vatican marks a significant development for the first ...

ROME — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Saturday that the Vatican could be a venue for Russia-Ukraine peace talks, ...

Pope Leo XIV has offered to host a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine at the Vatican, while Cardinal Pietro Parolin called ...

Trump and Russia’s Putin spoke as Ukraine and Europe push for a ceasefire. For context: Russia and Ukraine engaged in direct ...

The leadership of the European bishops’ conference said Pope Leo XIV was “welcoming, available, and ready to listen” to their ...

Ukraine, officials say, first sought the Vatican’s intervention during the papacy of Pope Francis, shortly after the Russian invasion in 2022. The Holy See — through its diplomatic missions in ...

Vance, a Catholic convert, had led the US delegation to the formal Mass opening the pontificate of the first American pope.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance has extended an invitation to Pope Leo XIV to visit the United States during a meeting at the ...

Pope Leo XIV is calling for humanitarian aid to enter Gaza amid an Israeli blockade and also urging for peace in Ukraine and ...

Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, sent a message of congratulations on Friday to Pope Leo, whose ...