The pope has closely followed the response of U.S. prelates to the president's attacks on migrants and he expects them to ...

Pope Francis on Tuesday appointed Bishop Edward Weisenburger, 64, as the archbishop-elect to succeed 76-year-old Archbishop ...

Further reading: Pope’s health: suffering from "mild flu ... a book on the pontificate of Pius XI—who died of a heart attack on the night of February 9–10, 1939—historian Fabrice Bouthillo ...

The Church has a moral duty to denounce oppression and abuse of human rights. Indeed, the church has been condemned in the ...

Some 50,000 people visit St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City daily. The 500-year-old structure, with its 448-foot-high dome, ...

Since it became independent in 1929, Vatican City has been the world’s smallest state. Every evening the gates close, leaving ...

Over the past century, Catholic leaders have wrestled with how much to embrace new forms of communication technology.

The long-awaited and elusive ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has silenced bombs and halted air raids on the Gaza Strip, ...

Poland, to which Pope Pius XI was once a lively, winter-sports-loving Papal Nuncio, is predominantly Roman Catholic (71%). It is also one of the few remaining nations where it is practically ...

And it is made by Stolz’s favorite ice crafter in the world, a former hockey player from Pius XI High School. Paul Golomski, the general manager of the Pettit, is the Wizard of Oz of the ...

Trump's envoy pick Burch criticised pope's LGBTQ stance Vatican officials cautious about papal critics like Burch Pope not looking for diplomatic spat with US, source says VATICAN CITY ...

The pope decided last October to suppress the Diocese of Fenyang in mainland China, which was originally erected in 1946 by Pope Pius XII ... images of President Xi Jinping, according to a ...