The Vatican is broke. The Holy See projected a budget of €770 million ($878 million) in 2022. But it couldn’t cover its costs ...

Michael Kelly, author of a new book on Pope Leo, sets out the challenges ahead and shares his hope that Northern Ireland will ...

While in Rome last month to celebrate Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration, Vice President J. D. Vance expressed a tempered optimism ...

Pope Leo’s election also offers hope, because he reminds the world that religious conviction need not serve nationalist power ...

AI-generated videos and audios of Pope Leo XIV are rapidly proliferating online, racking up views as platforms struggle to ...

A Portuguese bishop working for the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences faces canonical investigation at the Vatican ...

With her soft wispy hair and pink dress covered in white polka dots, Therese Giard has become an international media sensation overnight. She's none the wiser. Seven-month-old Theres ...

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Ut unum sint, Pope St John Paul II’s landmark encyclical on ecumenism, signed on May ...

Full USA TODAY coverage of Pope Leo XIV, the head of the Catholic Church and the first pope from the United States.

In their first call, Pope Leo emphasized dialogue with Putin about the Ukraine war, while the Kremlin leader claimed Kyiv was ...

In the days following his May 18 Inauguration Mass, Pope Leo XIV continued to add to the list of his papal “firsts.” ...

Because of its universal character and outlook, the Catholic Church can be a driving force for building communion between the church of Rome and the local churches as well as fos ...