Secular news outlets underscored its unprecedented nature. Within the Catholic Church, traditionalists and some canon lawyers raised objections about any non-ordained person, male or female ...

Listen ROME – An American rabbi has voiced optimism for Catholic-Jewish relations after ... and pledging to “continue and strengthen the Church’s dialogue and cooperation with the Jewish ...

Singapore’s Cardinal William Goh believes Pope Leo XIV will build a greater unity within the Church, particularly for Catholic faithful often divided on matters of Church doctrine and morality.

2 Mexican officials assassinated: The Church expresses ‘profound consternation’ Georgia attorney general: LIFE Act doesn’t require keeping pregnant brain-dead woman alive ...

Bishop Ireton High School’s chapel didn’t look like one from the outside, and its yellow bricks clashed with a red-brick ...

Security was tight as civil protection crews in neon uniforms funneled pilgrims into quadrants in the piazza and up and down the boulevard that leads to it for the ceremony blending ancient ritual ...

The meeting came during a day of intense diplomacy at the Vatican, including a meeting between Leo and US Vice President J.D. Vance, and highlighted the influence of the Catholic Church leader one ...

ROME (AP) — The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio, the blockbuster artist who revolutionized the use ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV vowed Sunday to work for unity in a polarized Catholic Church and world, as history's first American pope offered a message of healing during an inaugural Mass in St ...

Father Fadi Al Bargil during Christmas Mass at the Saint Sergius ... words like a prayer as she enters the Melkite Greek Catholic Church of Saint George in Maaloula. With a solemn expression ...

VATICAN CITY — Launching his papacy with a call for reconciliation and communion, Pope Leo XIV formally began his ministry as the successor of St. Peter by calling for “a united church, a sign of ...