Father Patrick Flanagan, an association professor of theology at St. John’s University, told CNA the doctrine of papal ...

The feast of Christ the King was instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925 following his encyclical Quas Primas. Today it is celebrated on the final Sunday before Advent. Quas Primas was Pope Pius XI’s ...

The Vatican on Saturday returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada as part of the Catholic Church's reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture in the Americas. Pope ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the history of a legendary papal namesake. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost ...

The supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church joined with the British monarch for a joint prayer in the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, breaking an ecumenical barrier that has existed for approximately 500 ...

Pope Leo XIV welcomed Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla to the Vatican for a unique visit combining ceremonial flourishes and a historic moment of prayer in the Sistine Chapel. According to ...

King Charles III and Queen Camilla of the United Kingdom were received in a private audience by Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace this morning, Oct. 23, during a state visit to the Holy ...

As the ceasefire took hold this weekend, Pope Leo XIV called it “a spark of hope in the Holy Land.” To understand the new pope’s approach to Israel, after he came into his role at a time of unusually ...

“Never meet your heroes” is an old adage, but it’s apparently one that Surrealist superstar Salvador Dalí never paid much mind. In fact, even after a disappointing meeting with the father of ...

COBB COUNTY, Ga. — A Georgia state representative has filed a Title IX complaint against a Cobb County High School, alleging gender-based discrimination against one of its varsity teams. State Rep.

The Catholic Church celebrated the feast of St. Pius X on Aug. 21 — an influential Pope at the turn of the 20th century whose warnings about the heresy of “modernism” help shine light on the ...

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV prayed Friday for a peaceful end to the “increasingly deafening violence” of wars around the world as he celebrated a Catholic feast day on the same day as a ...