In a new doctrinal note, Pope Leo and the Vatican sharply reject polygamy and growing Western polyamory, praising monogamy as ...

Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and All the East Cardinal Beshara al-Rahi, the Patriarch of the Maronite Church, appealed to the Islamist group Hezbollah to “free itself from Iran” in an interview he ...

Pope Leo XIV changed a Vatican law to allow women and non-cardinals to lead the Vatican City administration. Francis ...

VATICAN CITY -- The temporary chimney atop the Sistine Chapel released a plume of white smoke on Thursday evening local time, signaling that the 133 cardinals working inside had reached a two-thirds ...

Pope Leo XIV has fixed a technical glitch in a Vatican law that became problematic after Pope Francis named the first-ever ...

An Italian expert liturgist has written an open letter to Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago, criticizing the cardinal’s recent ...

Pope Leo XIV is planning to convene an extraordinary consistory of cardinals in early January, the theme of which is not yet known. In a brief communication sent to cardinals on Nov. 6, and obtained ...

Ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s to Türkiye and Lebanon, Cardinal Pietro Parolin says the pontiff wants to meet the Christian ...

VATICAN CITY – St. Louis Cardinals President Bill DeWitt III recently crossed paths with Pope Leo XIV in Vatican City, a meeting of Cardinals marked by a friendly chat and a gifted team jersey. DeWitt ...

Inside the Conclave and the Dawn of a New Papacy' presents readers with a substantive, engaging portrait of where things stand right now in a church, and a world, increasingly marked by polarization, ...

The apostolic exhortation "Dilexi Te" ("I Have Loved You") on the church's love for the poor, "is Pope Leo's document. It is the magisterium of the church," although Pope Leo himself wrote that it was ...

Pope Francis on Sunday announced he has chosen 21 new cardinals, including prelates from Jerusalem and Hong Kong — places where Catholics are a small minority — as he continues to leave his mark on ...