From late morning on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, the Vatican Gendarmerie had confiscated all mobile phones and any possible communication devices from the cardinal electors, such as ...

VATICAN: Pope Leo XIV expressed “deep concern” over the escalating conflict involving the joint US-Israel strikes on Iran and the broader Middle East, warning of potentially severe consequences if ...

Pope Francis highlighted the idea of accompaniment in his 2013 apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium ("Joy of the Gospel").

Pope Leo might have a suggestion. He didn’t mention it as a Lenten sacrifice, but it’s worth contemplating nonetheless. In a ...

I must confess that the issue remains in the background of my thoughts," the first American pontiff says in a new book.

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The world took notice of Trump and Vance’s Oval Office confrontation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which unfolded a year ago.

The Vatican on Wednesday announced a busy and lengthy foreign travel schedule for Pope Leo XIV in the first half of 2026, ...

Today is Saturday, Feb. 28, the 59th day of 2026. There are 306 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1993, a gunbattle erupted at a religious compound near Waco, Texas, when Bureau of Alcohol, ...

Even as a young boy growing up in a small Texas town, Father Jim Sichko knew exactly what he wanted to do later in life.