Republican Italy has so far witnessed ten papal visits to the Quirinale. John XXIII, the Pope of the Council made a saint by ...

Ignoring pleas from animal rights advocates to denounce bullfighting and its close ties with Spanish Catholicism, Pope Leo ...

During his 27-year pontificate, Pope John Paul II canonised so many people that some dubbed the Vatican "the saint factory".

Pope Francis has stripped the Vatican's Secretariat of State of control over its own funds, moving them to the supervision of its economic offices in an attempt to contain the fallout of a scandal ...

Fernando de la Iglesia Viguiristi, SJ, and Stefano Del Bove, SJ, explore the 2025 Jubilee’s roots and Pope Francis’ call for ...

Pope Leo's new document, Dilexi Te, is an excellent summation of Catholic social teaching about the poor that reflects his ...

Pope Leo XIV, writing in the first major document of his pontificate, has denounced the “dictatorship” of economic inequality ...

Cardinal Dolan’s recent remarks on Fox News were playing to the Catholic Church’s most reactionary elements.

(RNS) — When Pope Leo XIV was elected, many people asked me about him. My response was that we would have to wait six months to a year before we really understand who he is. Four months after his ...

The address comes 10 years after his predecessor’s groundbreaking statement on global warming. His words will be watched for signals on the direction of the new papacy. By Max Bearak and Elisabetta ...

In 1981, Mehmet Ali Ağca shot Pope John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square, nearly killing him. A year later, a rogue priest attacked again. Both times, the Pope survived — and famously forgave his ...

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday commissioned 39 new catechists worldwide, including two Filipinos who devoted years of service to the Church. Charlita Tabigue of the Diocese of Surigao and Rodina Anonuevo of ...