As he gears up for his first Christmas as leader of the world's Catholics, Pope Leo XIV is starting to show more noticeable ...

In 2018, German artist Michael Triegel asked a homeless man in Rome to pose for a drawing, thinking that he would make an ...

Leo seems to be understanding that his ministry must be open to the world — a world that does not understand Italian.

Seven years on, the man’s likeness has gone on display in the Vatican, a reunion of sorts that came about by improbable ...

The Jubilee Year of Hope concludes Jan. 6, but the graces will continue. Pope Francis urged the faithful to make a pilgrimage ...

Cardinal Dolan, who turned 75 last February, reportedly submitted his resignation as required under church law, though Pope ...

Christmas carols in every language and culture are expressions of how music can convey “feelings and emotions, even the deepest movements of the soul,” Pope Leo XIV said after listening, clapping and ...

In his papal bull proclaiming the Jubilee Year, the late Pope Francis emphasized the theme of hope, a much-needed virtue in a ...

Bishop Ronald Hicks, 58, will succeed Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who has led New York, the second-largest U.S. archdiocese by ...

This undated photograph shows a young Pope Francis, then Jorge Bergoglio, with his family. Back row, from left: his brother ...