The Vatican said an estimated 6,000 people signed up to participate in the weekend pilgrimage, including representatives from ...

The women meet all the requirements except one: they're not men. As deacons, they could preach at Mass and preside over baptisms, weddings and funerals.

In fact, the Wikimedia Foundation announced Dec. 2 that "Deaths in 2025" -- an entry that includes Pope Francis -- was their ...

Pope Leo XIV criticized prison overcrowding and insufficient inmate rehabilitation programs on Sunday as he celebrated a ...

At the time of his election in May and in the months immediately following, this correspondent expressed a cautious ...

Archbishop Georg Gänswein, former secretary of Pope Benedict XVI, said he hopes the beatification process will begin soon for ...

A Vatican report on women deacons published last week said that women could not be admitted to the diaconate “understood as a ...

The anniversary offers an opportunity to reflect not just on what the document says, but on the young papacy of Leo XIV.

Pope Leo XIV marked the popular Marian feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe by asking that Mary to intercede in the effort to ...

The pope also said that Europe should be involved in security guarantees for Ukraine after meeting with Ukrainian President ...

Reclaiming American Catholicism,' coming in at nearly 400 pages, is a comprehensive and meticulous synopsis of many of the ...

The American pontiff has rebuked the White House over its treatment of immigrants and the potential invasion of Venezuela.