Pope Leo XIV has criticized prison overcrowding during a special Mass for detainees, guards and their families.

The pope celebrated Mass with some 5,000 people, many foreign-born Catholics, in an intimate Istanbul arena on Nov. 29, his last full day in Turkey.

During the two weeks of stay in the Vatican of the recently pardoned Belarusian priests, there was no official information ...

With hymns echoing through marble halls and incense in the air, it was meant to be another quiet morning at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. But an unknown person stormed the Altar of Confession ...

Pope Leo XIV recites the Angelus after Mass for the canonization of seven new saints in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Oct. 19, 2025. Credit: CNS photo/Lola Gomez I don’t envy Pope Leo XIV as he ...

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

At the conclusion of the conference, Mass in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe will take place at 4 p.m. local time in St. Peter ...

A policy change concerning restrictions on the old Mass is relevant to the whole of the universal Church, not just England ...