Alb: A long white linen vestment with sleeves, it symbolizes the purity of heart that the priest brings to the altar.

Through a distant maternal ancestor, who was born in the 1590s, Pope Leo is ninth cousins, various times removed, with some ...

Abuse experts and survivors express a mix of tentative hopes and low expectations for how Pope Leo might address disciplining ...

So who is Blessed Carlo? Here’s what you need to know: 1. Carlo Acutis was born May 3, 1991, in London, where his father was ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope ... in Ukraine and offered prayers for the people of Gaza — children, families and elderly who are “reduced to starvation ...

While much was done during Pope Francis' pontificate to tackle the global abuse crisis -- a crisis moving at differing speeds in the church, depending on the country -- one significant e ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is in the homestretch of a term that has lately been dominated by the Trump ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — A Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists arrived at an Israeli port Monday after ...

But Lisa Afolayan appealed with help from a border patrol union. A one-day hearing was held in late 2012. The hearing officer ...

Smoke and flames filled the sky over Tehran as Israel struck oil and gas facilities in the Iranian capital and targeted more ...

You are the promise of hope for so many of us,” the pope told young people attending the “Chicago Celebrates Pope Leo XIV” ...

This week on “Inside the Vatican,” hosts Colleen Dulle and Gerard O’Connell and producer Ricardo da Silva, S.J., answer ...