Pope Leo will embark on his first trip outside Italy on Thursday, travelling to Turkey and Lebanon. Here is a history of ...

With more than 400,000 viewers since its release as of Nov. 14, and counting, a new film about the Sacred Heart of Jesus has become an unexpected box office hit in France -- and a ...

How far apart is the current leadership of  the U.S. bishops conference from the Holy See and universal church? Archbishop ...

Michael Wolff and Joanna Coles explore the possibility that the recent Democratic sweep may signal the end of what feels like Donald Trump’s never-ending hold on power. Gorsuch, Thomas want to ...

Explore the dramatic final centuries of Egypt's Old Kingdom (Sixth Dynasty) and its transition into the chaos of the First Intermediate Period. The focus shifts to the vital importance of funerary ...

Taunting Pope Leo about his favorite baseball team has become something of a tradition in the early months of his pontificate. Images of then-Father Robert Prevost at Game 1 of the 2005 World Series – ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. ROME (CNS) -- The world is thirsting for peace and for an end to abuses of power and indifference to the rule of law ...

ROME — The world is thirsting for peace and for an end to abuses of power and indifference to the rule of law, Pope Leo XIV said at an international gathering for peace. Standing before dozens of ...

On Sept. 14, 1998, Pope St. John Paul II — whose feast the Church celebrates on Oct. 22 — issued the encyclical Fides et Ratio on the relationship between faith and reason. John Paul II opened the ...

St. John Henry Newman near the end of his life, in 1887. Credit: Credit: Babouba, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Leo XIV will issue a document on Catholic education Oct ...

St. John Paul II. in Munich 1980. You probably know that St. John Paul II was the second-longest-serving pope in modern history with 27 years of pontificate, and he was the first non-Italian pontiff ...

On Oct. 22, we celebrate the feast of Pope St. John Paul II. It’s unusual to remember a saint who lived so recently. In John Paul, we saw a man whom God had endowed with prodigious natural gifts: ...