Cardinal Parolin recalled the 2003 Iraq war, when St. John Paul II pleaded for the conflict to be avoided but “was left alone ...

Only through a return to negotiation can the war come to an end,’ the Pope said at the end of his weekly general audience.

Faiths Vatican report says church teaching bars women deacons, but stops short of final ruling (RNS) — A Vatican-appointed commission says current church teaching does not allow women to be ordained ...

The entire Easter season lasts 50 days and includes the solemnity of the Ascension of Christ, which falls on the 40th day of ...

Upon the recitation of the Regina Caeli, the pope also remembered Pope Francis, who died a year ago on Easter Monday.

As part of his duties during his first Good Friday as pontiff, Pope Leo XIV personally carried a wooden cross at the ...

The pope’s reflection at the general audience was inspired by the Second Vatican Council’s dogmatic constitution Lumen ...

Pope Leo XIV on Palm Sunday sharply condemned war and the use of religion to justify violence, saying during Mass in St.

Today, Catholic Church experts said there are roughly 150 Catholic priests in the US trained to practice exorcism, a centuries-old ritual intended to rid people of demonic influence or possession.

The pope’s one-day trip will spotlight a Catholic state grappling with secularization and a quiet rise in new converts.