Religious affairs specialist Martin O’Brien reports from Rome as Pope Leo XIV addressed pilgrims in St Peter’s Square ...

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

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 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 ...

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

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

More than 250,000 people paid their respects to the pontiff at his funeral in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican said ...

Mistakes were made, apparently. ‘Woe be unto the person who decided to do it the way that they did it,’ one expert says.

He has given a great witness of humility, of closeness to the people, of living out the Gospel values. He has left a great ...

St. Paul Outside the Walls and, in a historic first, Rebibbia Prison - visitors find themselves on the side of the Basilica where Pope Francis is buried and directly in line to walk past his tomb.

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