The Latin Mass has become toxically politicized and is posing a test for Pope Leo XIV as traditionalists call on him to ...

From villages like Taybeh to once popular, now struggling tourist destinations like Bethlehem, Christians account for between ...

Elected on May 8, the American-Peruvian pontiff has yet to clarify his vision for the Catholic Church. Some recent statements ...

VATICAN CITY >> Pope Leo initially impressed conservative Catholics after his election in May as he embraced traditions shunned by his predecessor Pope Francis and steered clear of hot-button social ...

Some critics, who had praised the pope for his early reserve, expressed shock that Leo criticized the current champion of ...

More than 1,300 Cardinal Spellman High School students celebrated the start of the 2025-26 academic year by taking part in the annual Mass of the Holy Spirit in the gymnasium of the school, located at ...

(ANALYSIS) Early in the Mass, the priest — chanting in Latin — leads the congregation in a prayer of repentance. The faithful respond: “Confiteor Deo omnipotenti et vobis, fratres, quia peccavi nimis ...

Bishop Michael Martin of the Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, said the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) must cease at four parishes and will be only be permitted at a chapel beginning Oct. 2. After ...

(RNS) — Pope Leo XIV is not going to reject the reforms of Pope Francis, but neither is he going to quickly move beyond them. (RNS) — When Pope Leo XIV was elected, many people asked me about him. My ...

In a solemn funeral Mass held in St. Peter’s Basilica, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, paid tribute to Archbishop Novatus Rugambwa, recalling his decades of diplomatic service and ...