(RNS) — Over nearly the last year, the bishops have gradually ramped up a forceful and united defense of the American pope’s ...

The scene unfolded with a bluntness that surprised even seasoned Vatican watchers: a sitting U.S. president firing off a ...

Pope Leo XIV said on Monday that he had “no fear of the Trump administration,” after President Trump assailed him in a lengthy social media post as too liberal and “weak on crime.” Leo’s admonishments ...

Pope Leo sets out on a 10-day visit to Africa on April 13. He will visit four countries: Algeria, Cameroon, Angola and ...

Vatican cardinals led a vigil in St Peter's Square on Sunday as Catholic faithful prayed for Pope Francis' recovery amid his ...

In his second term, President Donald Trump’s most influential American critic doesn’t live in the United States, but at the Vatican.

Pope Francis emerged from his convalescence on Easter Sunday to bless the thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square and treat ...

Pope Leo XIV condemned "fake news" on Easter Monday amid his call for global peace while taking aim at President Donald Trump ...

In his first Easter mass as pontiff, Pope Leo XIV called for peace and an end to the current military conflicts in the world.

Pope Leo XIV urged those waging war to lay down their arms and called for global peace ahead of the traditional “Urbi et Orbi ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Easter Mass as pontiff with a call Sunday to lay down arms and seek peace to global conflicts through dialogue, but he departed from a tradition of listing the ...