VATICAN CITY -- Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday opened a new phase of his pontificate by gathering the world's cardinals to Rome and asking them to advise him on key priorities for the next two years. They ...

The experience was almost surreal. A Chicago priest climbed aboard the iconic popemobile alongside the Holy Father, the two longtime friends traversing the cobblestone plaza of St. Peter’s Square at ...

SALZBURG, Austria — Set against snow-capped Alpine peaks, the convent chapel at Schloss Goldenstein is candlelit and set for Advent. In early December, the mood was contemplative, a sharp contrast to ...

ROME — The Vatican unveiled its Nativity scene Monday and lit the 82-foot Christmas tree that towers above it in St. Peter’s Square as a band, chorus and dancers in traditional costumes from Italy’s ...

The Vatican has replaced an underground Catholic bishop in China who has spent years in and out of detention for resisting government religious policies, in a move that drew both official praise and ...

Following the series order at CBS for Cupertino, Robert and Michelle King have set up another drama series project named after a city a continent and an ocean away. Hulu is developing Vatican City, ...

Hello! I cover the Northtowns for 7 News WKBW. If you have a story idea, please email me at Eileen.Buckley@wkbw.com CLARENCE, N.Y. (WKBW) — Two Catholic parishes in Western New York are celebrating a ...

Just before the feast of the Immaculate Conception, a mosaic of Our Lady of Sorrows, protectress of Slovakia, was inaugurated in the Vatican Gardens. Archbishop Bernard Bober of Košice, president of ...

How did the new pope win over his colleagues and what does he bring to the role from his upbringing in Chicago and his work in Peru? Photo: Vatican Media/IPA via ZUMA Press The Second Vatican Council, ...

But a papal commission examining the question said further study was required, and advised that women should be given other leadership roles in the Catholic Church. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting ...

The Catholic Church has a long history of supporting environmental stewardship. This tradition got a recent boost. The late Pope Francis’ goal of powering the Vatican by 100% solar energy is happening ...

The Vatican, the smallest state in the world, possesses a unique and complex legal, administrative, and spiritual structure designed to guarantee the independence of the pope and allow the Church to ...