VATICAN— A new Vatican document defends marriage as a monogamous relationship amid the growing popularity of polyamory, and ...

Those who hoped an American pope would be more supportive of unregulated capitalism will be very disappointed in Leo.

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Tom Griffin is the chair of the religion department at a Catholic high school on Long Island. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of a print and online Catholic magazine called The Empty Tomb ...

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 ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV canonized Venezuela’s beloved “doctor of the poor” Sunday before tens of thousands of people, offering the South American nation its first saint and a reason to ...

(OSV News) — For Syrian Archbishop Jacques Mourad of Homs, who was held captive by the Islamic State group for five months in 2015, receiving an award named after St. John Paul II was a hopeful ...

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: ...

ROME, Italy — Pope Leo XIV marked his 70th birthday on Sunday by thanking God, his parents and all those who prayed for him. Leo, the first American pope, saw giant “Happy birthday” banners, in ...