After 12 years of sitting unused without its holidaymaker during the papacy of the late Pope Francis, who preferred to take time off in the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV has now revived this 16th-century ...

Irish forensic and archeological experts will begin the excavation of a church-run home for unmarried mothers where it's believed almost 800 children died.

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

As Dr. Ashleigh Molloy learned he would be appointed to the prestigious Order of Canada, the lifelong Catholic educator felt a quiet surge of gratitude, not for the spotlight, rather for the ability ...

After more than a decade without its most famous vacationer, the quiet town of Castel Gandolfo once again counts the pope ...

Is it possible to embrace the idea of a special, evenly divinely ordained mission for America without violating Christian ...

The pope named French Archbishop Verny as new president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, replacing ...

Reformist. Radical. Terms distancing the established state-condoned church during the religious reformation movement in Europe over 500 years ago. Out of the need to distill greater meaning from ...

France's Bishop Thibault Verny, 59, replaces American Cardinal Sean O’Malley, the retired archbishop of Boston.

A memorial is put up at the Tuam graveyard, where the bodies of 796 babies were uncovered at the site of a former Catholic ...