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

In fact, the Wikimedia Foundation announced Dec. 2 that "Deaths in 2025" -- an entry that includes Pope Francis -- was their ...

At least a dozen of the world's most influential figures across politics, spirituality, science, business, and sports died in 2025. Political leaders, spiritual icons, scientists, business magnates, ...

Lebanon needed this embrace.” The words went out over a social media platform, made more poignant for the accompanying image ...

By Kristina Millare Archduke of Austria Eduard Habsburg, who served as Hungary’s ambassador to the Holy See since 2015, ...

Pope Leo XIV has shared his thoughts during the conclave that elected him, saying he resigned himself to the inevitable and ...

The Vatican commission votes against women deacons, maintaining all-male clergy in a significant decision for the Church.

Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday shared for the first time what he was thinking when the votes started going his way during the ...

The new American pontiff has been far more reserved than his outspoken predecessor. But many of their underlying progressive messages remain the same.

Leo said that while the world's cardinals were meeting in a secret conclave in May to choose the successor to the late Pope ...

Traveling through the Mideast, Leo XIV channeled many of his predecessor’s messages. Leo’s deliberate manner differed from ...