Pope Leo XIV passes an American flag as he greets visitors and pilgrims from the popemobile while riding around St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican before his weekly general audience Sept. 17, 2025.

Pain must never give rise to violence, and every Catholic needs to learn to safeguard with tenderness those who are vulnerable, Pope Leo XIV said during a prayer vigil dedicated ...

French Christians are reeling after the brutal murder of Ashur Sarnaya, a 45-year-old disabled Iraqi Chaldean Catholic, stabbed in the throat outside his Lyon apartment. Sarnaya, ...

It was his first time in Poland -- the land of St. John Paul II -- and the visit had a special significance for Congolese Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, the outspoken ...

As tens of thousands of Palestinians were fleeing their homes as Israel launched a major new ground offensive in Gaza City, Pope Leo XIV expressed his ...

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As papal conversations at weekly outdoor Masses at the Vatican go, it was characteristically brief, but because of the famous actor involved, reported worldwide. Robert Redford and his German wife, S ...

Tariffs, duties imposed on imported goods, have been causing global uncertainty in recent months, with President Trump employing them periodically. Courts have even recently weighed in to consider the ...

As September dawned, eyes turned to Rome with joy to celebrate the canonizations of two young men -- Sts. Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis. In a particular way, many hoped that the holy lives of ...

Pope Leo XIV said a proposal to create an AI-version of him so people could have a virtual audience with the pope pretty much horrified him.

. . . Whether we understand it or not, we are people of the cross. And so this Sunday, we take time to acknowledge it, revere ...

Pope Leo XIV welcomed Brian Burch as the new U.S. ambassador to the Holy See Sept. 13, accepting his letters of credential and a chocolate cake topped with a metallic red sign sa ...