“A gift, unlike restitution, is offered in freedom and friendship, as a sign of renewed relationship and mutual respect ...

The Good Shepherd fresco depicts a youthful, clean-shaven Jesus dressed in a toga and carrying a goat across his shoulders.

Lebanon needed this embrace.” The words went out over a social media platform, made more poignant for the accompanying image ...

Pope Leo says Trump's remarks about Europe trying to "break apart alliance" ...

A federal judge says the Justice Department can publicly release investigative materials from a sex trafficking case against ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Pope Leo XIV encouraged Turkey to be a source of stability and dialogue in a world riven by conflict, as he opened his first foreign trip as pope on Thursday with a plea for ...

Preparing the way of the Lord means taking concrete steps to help usher in God's kingdom of peace, Pope Leo XIV said on his first Advent Sunday back at the Vatican after his trip to Turkey and Lebanon ...

On his first trip as pontiff, Leo XIV predictably called for peace and unity. But he also addressed technology’s promise and ...

Leo XIV has governed through pastoral warmth, quiet competence and careful incrementalism. Whether that approach heals the ...

A commission chosen by the late Pope Francis to study the possibility of women becoming deacons in the Catholic Church has ...

Pope Leo XIV challenged Lebanon’s political leaders on Sunday, November 30, to be true peacemakers and put their differences ...

A second Vatican study commission has determined that women should not be ordained as deacons, dealing another setback to ...