The dicastery for doctrine said it issued the note in response to requests from the bishops of Africa where polygamy is still ...

Our beliefs inform how we live, how we order our priorities, how we spend our time and money, and how we vote. The recent papal encyclical takes this as given. With international climate talks again ...

Like his predecessor Pope Francis, Pope Leo XIV has a vocal, defining focus on environmental stewardship — and he carried Francis' legacy forward on Wednesday with the Catholic Church's first-ever ...

The feast of Christ the King was instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925 following his encyclical Quas Primas. Today it is ...

By Daniele Piccini Pope Leo has said that the digital world “poses a challenge even for the consecrated.” He was speaking on ...

Those who hoped an American pope would be more supportive of unregulated capitalism will be very disappointed in Leo.

On Sunday, just ahead of his trip to Türkiye and Lebanon, Pope Leo XIV wrote about the 1700th Anniversary of the Council of ...

After his general audience on a sunny late-May morning, Pope Leo XIV met with pilgrims in St. Peter's Square and was presented with a simple gift: a photo album. The scrapbook, from members of the ...

When the late Pope Francis penned his groundbreaking encyclical letter "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home," it was hailed by some as the most influential contribution the Catholic Church has ...

SCHIAVON, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV 's choice of name signals a commitment to social justice that is very much in line with the late Pope Francis ' global ministry. “I think a lot us had a question ...

That the spirit of revolutionary change, which has long been disturbing the nations of the world, should have passed beyond the sphere of politics and made its influence felt in the cognate sphere of ...

Pope Leo XIV fed fish, petted horses and visited organic vineyards Friday as he inaugurated the Vatican’s ambitious project to turn Pope Francis’ preaching about caring for the environment into ...