The surge in blessings reflects enthusiasm over the start of a new pontificate and highlights a traditional practice that ...

Philadelphia's Archbishop Nelson J. Pérez gave Pope Leo XIV an Eagles hat while visiting the Vatican on Wednesday.

Catholic immigration advocates praised the bipartisan effort behind the reintroduction of legislation in Congress that would ...

Pope Leo XIV urged the young pilgrims to be a message of hope as he welcomed them in Rome for the 2025 Jubilee of Youth ...

Let us hope that all of you will always be a sign of hope for the whole world,' said the Holy Father, this time speaking in ...

Before a packed St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday, Pope Leo XIV gave his first general audience after his summer vacation in ...

The enthusiastic joy of young people, who love Jesus and want all wars to stop, will be heard to the ends of the earth, Pope ...

Pope Leo XIV surprised tens of thousands of young Catholics and showed up unexpectedly at a Holy Year welcome ceremony, ...

ROME -- ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday called for a renewed commitment to diplomacy to resolve conflicts as he marked the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Accords, the landmark Cold War-era ...

Pope Leo XIV holds his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, July 30, 2025.

In a world darkened by war and injustice, even when all seems lost, migrants and refugees stand as messengers of hope," the ...