As the conclave to elect the next pope begins, Pietro Parolin has emerged as ... including mediating between the United States and Cuba. Known for his closeness to Francis, the Irish News described ...

The world of Donald Trump, Elon Musk and similar believers in transactional reality has created a moral vacuum. There is an ...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV's significance as leader of the Catholic Church is beyond dispute, but the papacy's role has historically extended far beyond the altar and pews. For more than a century, ...

Washington, Kyiv and several of its European allies welcomed Pope Leo XIV’s offer to host peace talks between Ukraine and Russia at the Vatican. In recent decades, the Holy See has played a key role ...

The pope’s family history of “gens de couleur libre,” or free people of color, can be traced back to Opelousas, a ...

The Vatican has a deep history of conflict mediation, with varying degrees of success. An effort by the pope to end the war ...

The opposition group Council for Democratic Transition in Cuba (CTDC) has expressed its backing for potential discussions ...

Pope Francis’s legacy is one of bold moral clarity: a Church allied with the poor, a planet in peril, and a global economy in ...

There is no reason why Pope Leo XIV would broker peace between Putin and Zelenskyy just because the president of America ...

Vice President JD Vance met on Monday at the Vatican with Pope Leo XIV, the first leader of the global Catholic Church from ...

The US and European leaders are placing their hopes in the Vatican to engage Russia and Ukraine in peace talks, after ...

Trump proposed in a statement on social media that Pope Leo XIV host delegations in Vatican City and play a mediating role in ...