VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The first American-born pope may have brought Washington and Rome closer symbolically, but not ...

I am very happy to be here among you and to spend the next few weeks with a little rest, a little prayer, a little reading ...

After recovering from an illness, the late Pope Francis wrote a letter to Luciano Fontana, the editor in chief of the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, as a reply to a message of support the ...

As the US celebrated its 250th anniversary, Pope Leo XIV decided instead to visit the Sicilian island of Lampedusa. Closer to ...

(The following is the text of a homily given by Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, the archbishop of Washington, during a special ...

Pope Leo XIV is going on summer vacation after a whirlwind finale to the first half of 2026. Leo is spending the rest of July ...

After the pope's visit to the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, the U.S. Embassy said the ambassador to the Holy See gave Leo a ...

By spending the semiquincentennial mourning the plight of migrants, Leo sent a clear challenge to his native country.

The pope congratulated Americans on the "extraordinary national anniversary" while urging "compassion" for migrants.