The 69-year-old Chicago native is resuming the papal tradition of leaving the Vatican for the hot summer months in favor of the relatively cooler climes of Castel Gandolfo.

The Holy Father, speaking in English, expressed his “sincere condolences” to “families who have lost loved ones, in ...

In his very first sermon as pontiff, Pope Leo XIV told the cardinals who elected him that anyone who exercises authority in the Catholic Church must “make oneself small,” so that only Christ remains.

VATICAN CITY >> Pope Leo on Saturday appointed a French archbishop as the new leader of the Vatican’s commission on clergy sexual abuse, in the U.S. pontiff’s first public move to confront an issue ...

The Holy Father invited a large group of teachers and young people from Denmark, England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales to the ...