(RNS) — Alvarado will be the youngest person to lead a Vatican dicastery in recent memory and the first woman who is not a religious sister to be a Vatican pre…

(RNS) — This week’s photo selection includes the Ebola crisis in Africa, Spain preparing for Pope Leo XIV and more.

A new poll shows President Trump trailing Pope Leo XIV by 54 percentage points when it comes to net favorability. The Economist/YouGov survey, released Monday,…

(The Conversation) — Latter-day Saints have long valued the US Constitution’s promise of religious freedom – but the church has also tested its boundaries.

(AP) — Church leaders and some experts see the success of youth movements and the surge in adult baptisms as signs that some young people are showing new inter…

Pope Leo XIV took a step Tuesday toward overhauling the Vatican’s communications operations by naming the Mexican-American president of the Catholic U.S. media…

Across the Sahel region, where many Fulani herders have historically lived, rising temperatures, drought, and desertification have reduced grazing land. Now, p…

Throughout World War II, discriminatory policies saw thousands of Romani, Sinti, Manush, Yenish and travellers displaced across France, imprisoned in vast inte…

TAMAQUA — Marian Catholic went into the PIAA playoffs Monday afternoon unsure of whom the latest shining star would be. Roman Bednarek proved the man of the h…

Trump's remark was about Trump, and it was part of a calculated push to make leading Catholics in his administration choose between him and the pontiff.

Ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Spain, during which he will inaugurate the Tower of Jesus at Barcelona’s famous Sagrada Familia, an expert in Venerable Antoni…