Documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice in the Epstein case reveal that former White House adviser Steve Bannon was in communication with the convicted financier in an effort to harm Pope ...

Pope Leo XIV will visit ground zero of Europe’s migration drama, the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, on July 4 in a strong sign ...

The Vatican has announced that Pope Leo XIV will travel up and down the Italian peninsula over the next few months.

Wednesday marked the start of the 40 day period of prayer for the season of Lent, but this year's season marked another first with an American pope in charge of the catholic church.

Beneath the Roman pines of the Aventine Hill, Pope Leo XIV led a solemn penitential procession Feb. 18 to Rome's oldest extant basilica, marking the first Ash Wednesday of his pontificate with a call ...

The state of the world, Pope Leo stressed, asks us on this Ash Wednesday “to call death for what it is, and to carry its ...

Pope Leo XIV led his first Ash Wednesday procession and prayer service at the Vatican. In his first Lenten message as Pope -- the Pontiff called on Christians to embrace listening, fasting, and ...

How rare it is to find adults who repent — individuals, businesses and institutions that admit they have done wrong,” Pope Leo said in his homily in the Basilica of Santa Sabina.

The first night of Ramadan begins this evening, marking the start of a month‑long sunrise‑to‑sunset fast for Muslims. Today is also Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, a Christian season often ...

In his homily, Leo offered a meditation on sin and said the ashes that Christians receive bear the "weight of a world that is ablaze, of entire cities destroyed by war.” ...

Pope Leo XIV presided over Ash Wednesday, lamenting the “ashes of international law and justice” destroyed by global ...

Pope Leo inaugurated the Lenten season Wednesday lamenting the various “structures of sin” that exist in the world and encouraging believers to live embrace the period as a time of conversion.