For the world's 1.4 billion Catholics and for millions of other people as well, the Catholic Church's 2025 was primarily ...

Pope Leo has dissolved a high-level Catholic commission established to encourage donations to the Vatican, the Vatican said ...

Pope Leo has dissolved a high-level Catholic commission, established by his predecessor Francis to encourage Vatican ...

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

Rome — It's been called "holy smoke." And it's color coded. Black and white plumes puffed from canisters over the weekend as pyrotechnics expert Massimiliano De Sanctis tested the mechanism that will ...

VATICAN CITY — World leaders and rank-and-file Catholic faithful bade farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral Saturday that highlighted his concern for people on the peripheries and reflected his wish ...

The ailing pope was short of breath, sitting beneath a cherished painting of Mary, Untier of Knots, as he worked through a last-ditch plan to disentangle the finances of one of the world’s most opaque ...

VATICAN CITY — As the Vatican switches gears from saying goodbye to Pope Francis to electing his successor, the status of a once-powerful Italian cardinal and whether he can vote in the May 7 conclave ...

Before leaving for his first apostolic trip to Turkey and Lebanon in November, Pope Leo XIV issued reforms to the Vatican’s labor laws. Both recognize the rapid changes in the makeup of the Catholic ...

The opinion by the head of a commission charged with considering the question in effect states that the Catholic Church ...

The group was split 5-5 on a statement that held Jesus' masculinity and that of all who receive holy orders "is not ...