History's first American pope presided over a rollicking encounter with thousands of young men who were in Rome for a special ...

ROME -- ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV affirmed Wednesday that priests must be celibate and insisted that bishops take “firm and decisive” action to deal with sex abusers, as he gave marching orders ...

Thank you for courageously accepting the Lord’s invitation to follow him, to be disciples, to enter the seminary,” Pope Leo ...

Pope Leo XIV kicked off a weeklong celebration of Catholic clergy on Tuesday by encouraging seminarians to be joyful and ...

Almost a year after Pope Francis set up a commission to develop a large solar-panel array on Vatican property outside of Rome ...

Pope Leo XIV will spend two weeks of July at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, bringing back a centuries-old ...

Pope Leo XIV, history's first American pontiff, delivered a message of joy and honesty to thousands of seminarians in Rome on ...

Pope Leo XIV encouraged seminarians to embrace joy and honesty as he launched a week-long celebration for Catholic clergy in ...

CNA Staff, Jun 7, 2025 / 11:45 am. Pope Leo XIV on Saturday said the Catholic Church is open to establishing a common date of Easter among all Christian churches, echoing one of the aims of the ...

FILE - Pope Francis attends the IOR (Institute for Religious Works) Vatican Bank's council, at the Vatican, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP) ...

Pope Francis created the commission early on in his pontificate to advise the church on best practices and placed a trusted official, Boston’s then-archbishop, Cardinal Sean O’Malley, in charge.