Catholics seeking moral guidance need to listen to the pope’s weekly address directly rather than rely on the interpretation ...

VATICAN: Pope Leo XIV expressed “deep concern” over the escalating conflict involving the joint US-Israel strikes on Iran and the broader Middle East, warning of potentially severe consequences if ...

ST PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Two American cardinals and the Vatican’s ambassador to the U.S. denounced the mass deportations in ...

Eight hundred years after his death, the bones of St. Francis of Assisi have been placed on public display for the first extended public viewing in history, drawing hundreds of thousands of pilgrims ...

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The number of Roman Catholics is growing faster in Africa than anywhere else, according to the Vatican. The Vatican announced on Wednesday that Pope Leo XIV would make a 10-day trip to Africa in April ...

NCR interviews Fr. René Constanza, whose reelection as president of the Paulist Fathers comes at a moment of both continuity and challenge for one of the most distinctly American Catholic orders.

The bones of St. Francis of Assisi have gone on public display for the first time in the Italian town of Assisi, where locals ...

The bones of Italy’s patron saint will be shown to the public for a month, to mark the 800th anniversary of his death.

Assisi is putting the bones of St. Francis on public display for the first time, and the Italian town is bracing for a crush of pilgrims.