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 ...

Benches created by District 205 students and teachers depicting Pope Leo XIV are inside Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home in ...

He also prayed that families find strength, young people find meaning and people of faith seek greater communion.

During the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Pope Leo prayed for Mary's intercession so that she would help nations avoid lies & hatred.

Catholics celebrate the birth of the Virgin Mary, with the caption “Happy birthday, Mary!” I wish I could say Guadalupe is ...

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

His beatification had been scheduled for Dec. 21, 2019, in Peoria, Illinois, before its postponement, a move that was ...

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

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

Despite an uptick in executions in the U.S. in 2025, opponents of the death penalty lauded decreases in new death sentences ...