Pope Leo XIV will canonize Blesseds Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati together Sept. 7, the Vatican announced.

Acutis was 15 when he died in northern Italy in 2006, after a short bout with leukemia. He has become enormously popular ...

The Vatican wanted a complete makeover of the vatican.va website. The catch was it had to be ready to launch with the ...

I truly believe Pope Leo will be very supportive of the renewal and of other lay movements,” said Shayne Bennett of Holy ...

During a visit to the Vatican last year, I was moved to tears. It was not prompted by the pope. And no tears poured out when I prayed inside St. Peter’s Basilica. The artwork on the ceiling of ...

In this episode, we dive into a series of candid interviews conducted by veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O'Connell with cardinal-electors from around the world on the new pope.

the late Pope Francis, vowing to take forward his “synodal” approach of seeking open discussion with the clergy and faithful of the global Catholic Church.

It was disconcerting to watch JD Vance being received by the ailing Pope Francis at the Vatican this past Easter. The pope, like a character in a cheap airport thriller, had 24 hours to live.

Even more significant than these “firsts,” I believe, is a “second”: Leo follows in Pope Francis’ footsteps as a priest shaped by the Latin American church. The new pontiff served the ...

“In today’s dramatic scenario of a piecemeal third world war, as Pope Francis stated many times, I too address the world’s leaders, repeating the ever-timely appeal: ‘Never again war!’ ...

Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. In the weeks since Pope Francis’s passing, the internet has been flooded by papal memes, election ...

Pope Francis, who died last month at the age of 88. "This is the first greeting spoken by the Risen Christ, the Good Shepherd," the Instagram post continued. "I would like this greeting of peace ...