Bishop John Dolan led the diocese in celebrating a special Mass for grandparents and the elderly Sunday.The Mass of thanksgiving at Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral in Phoenix coincided with the Church’s ...

Pope Leo XIV has surprised tens of thousands of young Catholics by showing up unexpectedly at a Holy Year welcome ceremony ...

Pope Francis said “Ecumenical and interreligious dialogue is not a luxury, but something which our world, wounded by conflict ...

Half a million young people are expected to pour into Rome next week for the biggest event of the 2025 Holy Year ...

Israeli strike hits Gaza church, killing 3 and wounding priest who was close to Pope Francis Pope Leo XIV on Thursday renewed his call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza in response to the attack ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV prayed Wednesday for the world to recognize the urgency of the climate crisis and “hear the cry of the poor,” as he celebrated the first papal Mass using a new set of prayers ...

Pope Leo XIV picks up where Pope Francis left off, and embraces a new Mass focused on the environment, care for the Earth and climate change.

Pope Leo XIV will head to the lakeside town of Castel Gandolfo for his summer vacation. After 12 years of papal absence, locals are eager to welcome him.

The Vatican says leaked documents that seemingly undermined Pope Francis’ stated reason for restricting the old Latin Mass were only part of the evidence he consulted before cracking down on the ...

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

Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni declined to explicitly confirm the authenticity of the documents, which were posted online this week by a Vatican reporter.

ROME — Leaked documents seemingly undermining Pope Francis’ stated reason for restricting the old Latin Mass provided an incomplete reconstruction of the evidence that informed his 2021 ...