Pope Leo XIV greets visitors in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican as they gather to pray the Angelus prayer on the feast of the Holy Family, Dec. 28, 2025. Credit: CNS photo/Vatican Media VATICAN CITY ...

The parents of St. Carlo Acutis contributed to the development of a new official news application connected to the institutional website of the Vatican City State, www.vaticanstate.va, an initiative ...

For Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate, which began on May 8, a total of 2,913,800 faithful attended various events. Aerial view of St. Peter’s Square filled with thousands of mourners, including clergy and ...

Pope Leo XIV is preparing for a very busy year at the Vatican in 2026, with important events such as the conclusion of the Jubilee of Hope and his first consistory of cardinals since his election on ...

Redemptorist Fr. Francis Xavier Murphy, pictured in a 1996 file photo, wrote a series of dispatches on the Second Vatican Council for The New Yorker magazine. Written under the pseudonym Xavier Rynne, ...

(RNS) — Strong departments of justice and finance are essential if the Vatican is going to operate effectively and efficiently without more scandals. (RNS) — All the cardinals of the Catholic Church ...

Seventeen Catholic priests, sisters, seminarians and lay workers were murdered in 2025, according to Fides, the Vatican's missionary news agency. Five of the victims were killed in Nigeria where ...

A day after closing out the 2025 Holy Year, Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday opened a new phase of his pontificate by gathering the world's cardinals to Rome and indicating some reform-minded priorities ...

The tale of Christmas Eve, sung out by the youth choir at Fourth Presbyterian Church. "My daughter has been performing in the choir here since she was three," Justin Epps said. "It's a big part of the ...

Dec. 24 (UPI) --Pope Leo XIV brought back the Christmas Mass at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City on Wednesday night, which is the first held there since 1994. About 11,000 attended the mass, ...

Christmas 2025 marks the very first Christmas Pope Leo will be serving as pontiff for the traditional holiday mass. The mass is free, but tickets are required. If you can’t make it to Rome this ...

ROME — Pope Leo XIV closed out 2025 on Wednesday with a prayer that the city of Rome might be a welcoming place for foreigners and fragile people, young and old. Leo presided over a New Year’s Eve ...