The shallow earthquake damaged buildings and injured several people in the remote Russian region, while much of Japan's ...

Pope Leo XIV has surprised tens of thousands of young Catholics by showing up unexpectedly at a Holy Year welcome ceremony ...

Pope Leo XIV met with a top Russian Orthodox cleric, the first such visit from Moscow since the papal election, and one that ...

The Vatican, which boasts a vast real estate portfolio, has since 2021 published annual reports on its holdings, part of the ...

At least 43 people, including children, were killed July 27 in a brutal overnight attack on a Catholic church in Komanda in eastern Congo.

Castel Gandolfo is also home to one of the Holy See’s more unexpected institutions: the Vatican Observatory, which since its ...

The archbishop of Warsaw, Poland, has asked the Vatican to defrock a priest charged with the killing of a 68-year-old ...

In 9th-century Rome, one pope dragged a rotting corpse into court. Pope Stephen VI turned the Vatican into a theatre of ...

A new bill in Congress would “safeguard” the U.S. citizenship of any American elected as pope of the Catholic Church and ...

The timing of the meeting follows a call on June 4 between Pope Leo and Putin, during which the Kremlin urged the Vatican to ...