According to the Diocese, the resolution allows it, parishes, and Catholic entities to “move forward with clarity, ...

Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy presented Pope Leo XIV with a religious icon, painted on wood that had seen the ...

The word pride has shifted over the millennia, from being first used to describe one of the seven deadly sins in Roman ...

Tens of thousands came to St. Peter’s Square to mark the official start of the pontificate of the first American to lead the ...

As Pope Leo XIV is formally inaugurated, he vows to work for unity and peace at a time of polarization in the Catholic Church ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, died aged 88 on April 21. World leaders, monarchs and hundreds of thousands of mourners descended on Rome to pay their ...

Excavators working at an ancient Catholic church in Italy recently found an even older religious symbol: the head of an ancient deity. The Appian Way Regional Park announced the find on Facebook.

After the Mass, Pope Leo travelled in the popemobile to St. Mary Major Basilica, where he paused for prayer at the tomb of ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the history of a legendary papal namesake. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost ...

(AP) The papal conclave is the secretive, centuries-old process by which the Roman Catholic Church elects ... conclave comes from the Latin cum clave, meaning “with a key” — a nod to how ...

Appearing on the balcony of St. Peter’s is a pope’s first appearance – a tradition full of symbolism. I am a scholar who studies Roman Catholic theology and history. I am particularly ...

The Mass for the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate will mark the official beginning of his ministry as successor of ...