Papal encyclicals are a powerful way the pope shapes global debates and articulates Church doctrine, but how should Catholics ...

The Lebanese bishop sat alongside Leo XIV during today’s general audience in St Peter's Square. The pope mentioned the ...

On May 20, the Pope began a series of messages focused on 'Sacrosanctum Concilium,' a constitution on the sacred liturgy and ...

The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s general audience address given May 20 in St. Peter’s Square. Initial ...

Bob Dylan will be 85 this week. While ‘America’ didn’t always offer him the coverage he deserved, many of our writers have ...

Tensions increased further in April, when American cardinals joined Leo in challenging the morality of war against Iran. Trump crudely assailed the pope on social media, denigrating him as “WEAK on ...

What is an encyclical, exactly? The apostles used letters to address the faithful of the churches they helped to establish -- ...

In a May 14 statement, Benedictine College in Atchison disclosed that in late April its campus had been "repeatedly ...

For years, Gary Bankhead kept finding dozens of religious relics clustered within one section of England's River Wear — and ...

ROME—With Pope Leo XIV’s first big crisis looming, the Vatican on Wednesday issued a final warning to a breakaway group of ...

Bishop Robert Barron slams borderline communists in the Democratic Party, warning that the extreme leftward shift poses a ...

A study group established by Pope Francis after the Synod on Synodality has called for a greater role for the laity and ...