Peter is then told to put on his cloak. The robe in Scripture is often equated with righteousness. Thus the instruction of ...

Pope Leo XIV will head off on holiday Sunday after a measured first two months at the helm of the Catholic Church, marked by ...

Beneath a canopy of Roman pines, Americans in Rome celebrated the Fourth of July this year with something more than barbecue and fireworks: the historic election of the first pope born and raised in ...

Pope Leo XIV on July 3 appointed two prominent cardinals, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, and ...

The martyrs include three French missionaries and a Korean priest executed for violating a ban on Christianity ...

The U.S. embassy’s annual celebration, held June 30, commemorated the 41st anniversary of formal diplomatic relations between ...

Cardinal Robert McElroy, the Archbishop of Washington, has strongly criticized the Trump administration’s immigration ...

The debate in the Catholic Church over the celebration of the old Latin Mass is heating up just as Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate is getting under way ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Catholic priests will now be able to celebrate Mass “for the care of creation” after the Vatican ...

For 400 years, most popes escaped the Roman summer in the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Then Francis stopped going, ...

The Vatican says leaked documents that seemingly undermined Pope Francis’ stated reason for restricting the old Latin Mass ...

In one case, Pope Leo XIV — then known as Bishop Robert Prevost — sided with victims of sexual abuse, locking horns with ...