ROME — Pope Leo XIV fixed a technical glitch on Friday in a Vatican law that became problematic after Pope Francis named the first-ever woman to head the Vatican City State administration. Leo amended the 2023…
Vatican MediaPope Leo XIV visits the tomb of St. Francis in Assisi, Italy, on Nov. 20, 2025. Pope Leo XIV also traveled to the city of Montefalco, where he celebrated Mass in the monastery of…
Rnrivas, CC BY-SA 4.0Mary Help of Christians Basilica on the campus of Belmont Abbey College. Talley will assume the position of the college’s 21st president on Jan. 2, 2026.
ADF InternationalReem Alsalem (right), the United Nations special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, opposes surrogacy at an Oct. 9, 2025, U.N. event hosted by the Italian government. Alsalem called for member states to…
Maxx Studio McGovern, who is Catholic, said the U.S. needs to protect religious freedom at home first for its position to carry real weight. Brownback cited a report listing 10 Catholic bishops detained by the…
GARDEN GROVE, Calif. — An interactive museum dedicated to the Shroud of Turin, which some say was Jesus’ burial cloth, opens its doors to the public Wednesday at the Christ Cathedral campus in Southern California.…
Centuries of church schisms show that if there’s a doctrine to be fought over, there’s a good chance Christians will fight about it. That repeated splintering is what makes the Council of Nicaea — a…
ROME — Ukraine has asked the Vatican to formalize its role facilitating negotiations over the return of Ukrainian children and civilians taken by Russia during the nearly four-year war, a Kyiv government official said Wednesday. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made the…
Kathleen Murphy/CNASister of Mercy JoAnn Persch, a longtime immigrant rights advocate, died on Nov. 14, 2025, at age 91. Sister Persch and Sister Pat Murphy were founding members of the Su Casa Catholic Worker House…
Roughly a third of all Catholic clergy ordained in England and Wales over the past three decades have come from the Anglican Communion, a new report launched Thursday in London shows, giving for the first…