As well as the topic remaining unknown, it is also not yet certain if all cardinals have been notified of the planned gathering.

Vatican City remains overwhelmingly male with women constituting only about 5 percent of its population. Recent appointments by Pope Francis signal slow change amid deep-rooted religious traditions.

Pope Leo XIV received in a Nov. 6 audience the members representatives of the Christian Churches of Europe, who met in Rome ...

Pope Leo XIV and the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, recognized the “urgent need to provide assistance ...

The Vatican recognized Palestine a decade ago, and Pope Leo has backed statehood, even if that looks increasingly unlikely.

The pope and Abbas spoke about “an urgent need to provide assistance to the civilian population in Gaza and to end the ...

Pope Leo XIV has met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and the two discussed the urgent need for assistance to civilians ...

The Vatican said on Monday that priests cannot bless same-sex unions, disappointing LGBT+ Catholics who had hoped that the ...

Twenty cardinal electors and influential cardinal non-electors spoke to NCR after Pope Leo XIV's election. In Part 2 of this ...

WASHINGTON — Cardinal Robert McElroy, the 71-year-old Archbishop of Washington, has been diagnosed with cancer, the ...

After Pope Leo XIV's election, NCR spoke with cardinal electors and influential cardinal non-electors who witnessed the inner ...