Vatican City, Jul 2, 2025 / 12:35 pm Pope Leo XIV declared that nature should not be a “bargaining chip” in his message announcing the theme “Seeds of Peace and Hope” for the 10th World ...

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.

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.

Pope Leo XIV received members of a delegation from the Eastern Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate in a June 28 audience.

Since white smoke billowed in May from the Sistine Chapel and Pope Leo XIV was elected Pope Francis’ successor, the new pope’s childhood home — a small, two-story house in Dolton, Illinois ...

The debate in the Catholic Church over the celebration of the old Latin Mass is heating up with the apparent leak of Vatican documents that undermine the stated reason of his predecessor Pope ...

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After leading the Diocese of Monterey since 2018, Bishop Daniel Garcia, 64, has returned to his home state of Texas to serve the Austin Diocese as its leader.

It was one of the first times Leo has spoken unscripted at length in public, responding to questions posed to him by the children.

The Vatican has granted a parish in Texas an exemption from restrictions to the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) imposed by Pope Francis’ decree Traditionis Custodes.

Wyatt Kaiser, Louis Crevier and Arvid Soderblom will remain restricted free agents, while Philipp Kurashev will hit the open market.

San Francisco's car-free Sunset Dunes Park is poised to present the city's first Fourth of July Parade in decades.