Opinion: The Catholic church has outlasted Herod and Pilate through Napoleon to Stalin and Hitler. It will probably manage ...

Never before has the relationship between Washington and the Vatican revolved around two Americans — specifically, a ...

Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of prisoners and refugees. On Thursday, his successor performed the rite of humility and service for priests. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome In 2013 ...

ROME – Pope Leo XIV opened the church’s penitential Lenten season by presiding over Ash Wednesday and lamenting the “ashes of international law and justice” that have been left by today’s wars and ...