The surge in blessings reflects enthusiasm over the start of a new pontificate and highlights a traditional practice that ...

Pope Leo XIV met with a top Russian Orthodox cleric, the first such visit from Moscow since the papal election, and one that comes amid strained relations with Rome due to Russia’s ongoing war in ...

Pope Leo XIV will meet with Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, head of external relations for the Russian Orthodox Church, ...

Gaza’s only Catholic church – a refuge for many Christians during Israel’s war on Palestinians – has been bombed this morning. Strikes pounded the Holy Family Church, killing two people and wounding ...

Pope Leo, whose role in advocating for peace in Gaza has become notably stark since Israel struck the territory's only ...

Father Gabriel Romanelli was very close with the late Pope Francis and the two spoke every night since the beginning of ...

Pope Leo XIV called for a ceasefire and an end to the war in Gaza. The Israeli strike July 17 hit the Holy Family Catholic ...

President Trump called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to express his frustration over the strike on the church, the White House said. Netanyahu later released a statement saying Israel ...

When the Vatican announced that 69-year-old Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, would be replacing the late Pope Francis, many moderate and liberal Catholics in the United States applauded ...

Pope Leo XIV welcomed Ukrainian Greek Catholic pilgrims to the Vatican on June 28, saying their country has been "martyred" by Russia's "senseless war." Greek Catholicism is Ukraine's second ...