The 69-year-old Chicago native is resuming the papal tradition of leaving the Vatican for the hot summer months in favor of ...

First, he reassures the pilgrims who are crossing the Holy Door in the patriarchal basilicas in 'this great heat.' Then he ...

Pope Leo XIV signaled commitment to continuing the fight against clergy sexual abuse by appointing France’s Bishop Thibault ...

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Archbishop Thibault Verny of Chambéry as the new president of the Pontifical Commission for the ...

The Catholic Star Herald highlights the Diocese’s student athletes who stood out during the month of June. Claire Magee Paul ...

Castel Gandolfo prepares to welcome Pope Leo XIV July 6. The imposing papal villa in this town on the shores of Lake Albano, ...

The pope addressed the synod’s 16th ordinary council at its offices just outside the Vatican, where members are meeting June ...

Fye Editor St. John XXIII published his encyclical, “Pacem in Terris, On Establishing Universal Peace in Truth, Justice, ...

Castel Gandolfo has been for centuries a place of rest, prayer, and study for popes. Pius XII, John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul ...

New genealogical research traces the Pope’s ancestry back to the 1500s, revealing what Harvard historian Henry Louis Gates Jr ...

The concept of human rights within Catholic teaching is not a recent addition but rather has roots extending back to the ...

Examples of this include Pope Pius XII’s 1950 declaration of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini as the patron saint of immigrants, or Pope St. John Paul II’s 1999 recognition of St. Edith Stein as co ...