Pope Leo celebrated the largest event of his nearly three-month tenure, encouraging a crowd of more than a million Catholic young people gathered in …

Pope Leo XIV met on Friday at the Vatican with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians.

In his first formal audience, Leo made clear he will follow in the modernizing reforms of his predecessor, Pope Francis, to make the Catholic Church …

Pope Francis' funeral will be held in St. Peter's Square, setting the stage for a solemn ceremony that will draw leaders from around the worl…

Pope Francis, 88, had suffered a serious bout of double pneumonia this year, but his death came as a shock after he had been driven around St. Peter&…

Pope Francis has died. He was history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienat…

Former Pope Benedict, who in 2013 became the first pontiff in 600 years to resign, died at 95 in a monastery in the Vatican where he lived since step…

Pope Francis issued a historic apology to Canadian indigenous peoples for the Roman Catholic Church's role in residential schools that sought to …

Pope Francis said that parents of gay children should not condemn them but offer them support.

A Roman Catholic cardinal who was once a close ally of Pope Francis has gone on trial in the Vatican, accused of misusing Church money in a ruinous L…

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attacked China's record on religious freedom during a visit to Rome that has been overshadowed by his criticism of…

Hackers linked to the Chinese government have infiltrated Vatican computer networks, including the Roman Catholic Church's Hong Kong-based repres…