The late Pope Francis had long urged lenders to offer relief to highly indebted nations.

When a newly elected Pope Leo XIV appeared wearing the red mozzetta, a traditional papal garment set aside for over a decade, it sparked more than aesthetic curiosity. It awakened the deeper intuition ...

There are plenty of reasons for invoking the help of the most powerful archangel in today’s battles against the devil.

Leo made his first public comments about the clergy sex abuse scandal in a written message to a Peruvian journalist.

The Vatican on Sunday beatified a Congolese customs worker who was killed for resisting a bribe, giving young people in a place with endemic corruption a new model of holiness: Someone who refused to ...

Pope Leo XIV’s statement was read at the premiere of a play about the Peruvian investigative journalist Paola Ugaz, who was ...

The papal apartment, which is a series of rooms wrapping around the Vatican’s Sixtus V Courtyard, was the traditional home of pontiffs for over a century before Pope Francis eschewed those ...

Among leading papabile, Tagle stands out as one of Francis' key allies on issues of climate change and integral ecology. The former archbishop of Manila, who now heads of the Vatican's Dicastery ...

Francis, history's first Latin American pope, died April 21 at age 88. The chimney installation took place as cardinals arrived in the Vatican for another day of pre-conclave discussions about the ...