VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican unveiled its Nativity scene Monday and lit the 25-meter (82-foot) Christmas tree that towers ...

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

The pontiff offers something rare: a pastor-leader urging the church to reclaim the dignity of every person — not as an ...

Activists and academics advocating for the repatriation of artifacts “stolen by Pope Pius XI and his missionaries” from ...

Pope Leo XIV has criticized prison overcrowding during a special Mass for detainees, guards and their families.

The Vatican said an estimated 6,000 people signed up to participate in the weekend pilgrimage, including representatives from ...

The women meet all the requirements except one: they're not men. As deacons, they could preach at Mass and preside over baptisms, weddings and funerals.

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

Pope Leo’s updates to the Vatican labor code attempt to streamline a Curia under pressure, from pension woes to a dwindling ...

Pope Leo XIV marked the popular Marian feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe by asking that Mary to intercede in the effort to ...

In a time marked by increased conflict and division, we need authentic testimonies of human kindness and charity to remind us ...

"Our relatives are finally home. For First Nations, these are not only artifacts. They are sacred, living items," National ...