Pope Leo XVI received a blessing June 18 from three newly ordained Roman Catholic priests from Kansas at St. Peter's Square in Vatican City.

The Vatican Bank, officially known as the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR), reported a net profit of €32.8 million ...

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Pope Leo XIV will spend two weeks of July at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, bringing back a centuries-old ...

The town of Castel Gandolfo has said Pope Leo XIV will again partake in the centuries-long tradition of spending a summer ...

Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the Vatican’s nuncio to the Baltic states, said the region has been disappointed with the current ...

The cultural and pastoral diversity among clergy is not a burden but a gift that should enrich communion within the church rather than fragment it, Pope Leo XIV told the priests and deacons of the ...

Authorities in Mexico have arrested a Roman Catholic priest at the capital’s international airport on accusations he raped a minor over a period of years ...

The world’s smallest country has a big budget problem. The Vatican doesn’t tax its residents or issue bonds. It primarily finances the Catholic Church’s central ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — As a bishop in Peru ... to drive long distances to reach all of his flock or get to Lima, the capital. Prevost liked to fix them up himself, and if he didn’t know what ...