For the world's 1.4 billion Catholics and for millions of other people as well, the Catholic Church's 2025 was primarily ...

The pontiff offers something rare: a pastor-leader urging the church to reclaim the dignity of every person — not as an ...

The women meet all the requirements except one: they're not men. As deacons, they could preach at Mass and preside over baptisms, weddings and funerals.

At the time of his election in May and in the months immediately following, this correspondent expressed a cautious ...

The pope also said that Europe should be involved in security guarantees for Ukraine after meeting with Ukrainian President ...

A Vatican report on women deacons published last week said that women could not be admitted to the diaconate “understood as a ...

The Vatican said an estimated 6,000 people signed up to participate in the weekend pilgrimage, including representatives from ...

Pope Leo XIV marked the popular Marian feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe by asking that Mary to intercede in the effort to ...

Reclaiming American Catholicism,' coming in at nearly 400 pages, is a comprehensive and meticulous synopsis of many of the ...

Pope Leo XIV has strongly criticised prison overcrowding and inadequate inmate rehabilitation programmes, delivering his message during a special Mass for detainees, guards, and their families at the ...

Pope Leo’s updates to the Vatican labor code attempt to streamline a Curia under pressure, from pension woes to a dwindling ...

“He was a people’s pope. He was always focused on the common person, and when and when the 94 Calls to Action came out of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and it was called upon for the Pope ...