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 ...

During his Wednesday General Audience, Pope Leo XIV reflects on Vatican II's Dogmatic Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Leo XIV says Vatican finances do not keep him up at night. In his first year, rising Vatican bank income and renewed interest from American Catholic donors suggest he may ...

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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 -- ...

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 ...