Pope Leo XIV on Sunday heads to the papal summer residence for a six-week vacation, giving the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo back its most illustrious resident after Pope Francis stayed away during ...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attended a religious event according to a video carried by state television, after reports that he was in a 'secure location' since the start of a 12-day ...

French Archbishop Thibault Verny is the Vatican's new president of its Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors ...

Pope Leo XIV has heavy responsibilities ~ not just because the Catholic Church has reached global proportions, but because it ...

Iran’s highest-ranking Shiite cleric, who has issued a religious edict calling for the assassination of U.S. President Donald ...

Pope Leo XIV is reviving a 400-year-old tradition this July, becoming the first pontiff in over a decade to summer in Castel ...

For 400 years, most popes escaped the Roman summer in the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Then Francis stopped going, ...

A United Nations delegation made a surprise visit on Tuesday to Holy Family Parish, the only Latin-rite Catholic Church in ...

The world seems more fractured than at any point in recent memory since World War II. Yet amid this turmoil, the Vatican is ...

The Israel-Iran conflict is a geopolitical divide rooted in ideological, religious and political differences and ...

Eighty years ago, on June 26, 1945, the UN Charter was signed at the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on ...

Water supply networks and communications are targeted in attacks by warmongers, who should be punished for such actions, the pontiff noted ...