Br. Michael Perry was elected on July 15 to lead the largest province of the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor in the United ...

The Holy Father invited festival participants to return to the source of true joy, following this year’s motto: “Ad fontem! To the source!” ...

Pope Leo XIV is in Turkey on his first foreign trip, fulfilling the late Pope Francis’ plans to mark an important Christian ...

From his humble upbringing in Buenos Aires to his historic papacy, Pope Francis reshaped Catholic leadership through financial reform, progressive social stances, and a deliberate rejection of ...

Cardinal Ernest Simoni returned on July 31 to the site of the forced-labor camp where he had been imprisoned for 18 years ...

Francis' coffin reached St. Mary Major Basilica, his chosen burial place, following Mass in the morning at St. Peter's Square ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — As prominent prelates clash over the traditional Latin Mass, Pope Leo XIV’s response may reveal his deepest instincts about authority, unity and tradition.

Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical Humanae vitae covers a variety of themes, both theological and anthropological, and has proved to be remarkably prophetic, and yet it is still, in the minds of most ...

Today, after the Mass celebrated at the basilica, white rose petals will fall from the ceiling in the miracle’s honor. Two ...