In June 2024, the head of the Vatican communications department, Paolo Ruffini, vigorously defended his office’s continued ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV made his first appointment of a Chinese bishop under the Vatican’s 2018 agreement with ...

The Bloomington priest never thought he'd wind up back in his hometown. Hennessy retired in 2013 after a decade as pastor at ...

The regular monthly meeting of the city’s Fifth, Sixth and Seventh wards will take place at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, June 17. The councilors from those wards — Frank Anderson, Riccardo Dursi and David ...

Two masterpieces, centuries apart, reflect a theological insight centuries old: Mary was given not only to John, but to the ...

The Vatican doesn’t tax its residents or issue bonds. It primarily finances the Catholic Church's central government through donations that have been plunging, ticket sales for the Vatican Museums, as ...

Pilgrims from the Philadelphia region mourned during the funeral of Pope Francis and celebrated the election of Pope Leo XIV ...

Pilgrims coming to Rome will have the opportunity to see the newly restored tomb of one of the first Catholic popes.

The Jubilee Year of Hope, observed from December 2024 through December 2025, is drawing Catholic pilgrims from around the ...