Pope Francis kicked off the 2025 Holy Year on Tuesday, inaugurating a celebration of the Catholic Church that is expected to ...

Looking back over the last 12 months on the Vatican beat, it’s tempting to call 2024 “tumultuous” — tempting, that is, but ...

Bishops and cardinals join Pope Francis for vespers and the Te Deum of thanksgiving in St. Peter’s Basilica on Dec. 31, 2024, at the Vatican. Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Insisting that fraternity is not ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Offering his condolences, Pope Francis praised former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s Christian faith and ...

Donnelly says he didn’t go looking for the ambassador’s job, but he took it because President Biden asked him to.

Father Robert Regoli’s insightful study, now available in an updated English edition, examines the complexities of Benedict’s ...

On the Vigil of the feast of St. Mary, Mother of God, Pope Francis said the hope of brotherly fraternity is not based on ...

The year 2024 was marked by inspiring events for the Catholic Church—worldwide, such as the Synod, the reopening of Notre ...

The 2024 National Eucharistic Congress was a capstone event during the third year of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ initiative to renew faith in the Eucharistic Lord. The five-day congress ...

The pope, who turned 88 Dec. 17, mostly uses a wheelchair and presides over rather than concelebrates most public liturgies.

Pope Francis in July appointed the then bishop of the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana ...

Like you and me, the pope can see what Israel has done with such ruthless ferocity to besieged Palestinians for more than a ...