During his first visit outside the Vatican, on Saturday evening, Pope Leo XIV stopped at the Basilica of St Mary Major to pray before the icon of Mary Salus Populi Romani and at the tomb of the late ...

Pope Leo also celebrated Mother’s Day as jubilee bands and thousands of pilgrims created a festive atmosphere in St. Peter’s ...

Pope Leo XIV called for a genuine and just peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, in his first Sunday noon blessing as pontiff that featured some symbolic gestures suggesting a message ...

Pope Francis’ simple, unadorned tomb had received almost universal praise ... Engraving is an artform, according to designer and calligrapher Paul Shaw, who wrote in an email to the Register ...

The new pope began his pontificate in the sign of peace. Today, Good Shepherd Sunday, in front of almost 100,000 people, he ...

I, too, address the world's great powers by repeating the ever-present call: ‘never again war,’” Leo said from the loggia of ...

The sanctuary is run by the religious of the Order of St. Augustine and "houses an ancient image of the Virgin, dear to the ...

Although estranged from his own religious order for more than two decades, Pope Francis reconciled immediately after his election and remained a committed Jesuit until his death.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are sequestering themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A change in popes — through death or resignation — is a complicated process, with centuries-old rituals ...