Catholic cardinal electors from six continents gathered Wednesday inside the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican for the 2025 conclave to select a new pope. After the first round of voting, black smoke was ...

The Swiss Guards have introduced a new uniform for nonceremonial occasions. The new black wool outfit, revealed Thursday, is ...

Pope Leo XIV has made his first big Vatican appointment. Leo named an Italian legal expert to replace him as head of the Holy ...

Pope Leo XIV rallied more than a million young Catholics on Sunday, urging them to embrace peace and calling them “the sign that a different world is possible.” The Chicago-born pontiff delivered the ...

Pope Leo XIV says he has no intention of getting involved in U.S. politics but will raise his voice on issues of concern to the Catholic Church.

The smallest country in the world is none other than Vatican City. It's less than a fifth of a mile in size, at 0.17 square miles, while the mighty city of Rome around it covers approximately 496 ...

At their autumn assembly in Fulda, the German bishops defended controversial blessing guidelines for same-sex couples despite ...

SONNINO, Italy — They’d paused by a brook three hours into their 80-mile trek to Rome, but now it was time to move. “Andiamo,” shouted a 30-year-old historian from Bologna donning a gold crucifix.

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV arrived in the papal summer retreat of Castel Gandolfo on Sunday to start a six-week vacation, giving the hilltop town back its most illustrious resident ...

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV arrived in the papal summer retreat of Castel Gandolfo on Sunday to start a six-week vacation, giving the hilltop town back its most illustrious resident ...

Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church, raising the seeming ...