When John Paul II was elected to serve as pope, he became the first and only pope to call Poland his native country and home. As such, he used his position and status to advocate the end of the Cold ...

North Korea appears to have stopped broadcasting loud noises towards the South, Seoul's military said Thursday, one day after ...

I have lived during the Papacy’s eight popes. The first was Pius XII who died on Oct. 9, 1958. Pope Leo the XIV’s papacy will likely be my last because at 69 he is 10 years younger than I am. He is ...

Argentina will move its embassy from a Tel Aviv suburb to Jerusalem next year, Argentinian President Javier Milei announced ...

Full USA TODAY coverage of Pope Leo XIV, the head of the Catholic Church and the first pope from the United States.

Only two weeks after opening, Lima's new Jorge Chávez International Airport has experienced multiple operational problems, ...

We are all curious to see how Pope Leo XIV will engage with the Trump administration. The Chicago Archdiocese’s upcoming celebration of the pope, an American-Peruvian dual citizen, stands in contrast ...

By then, Considine had become head of the U.S. bishops’ Latin America Bureau. He worked with the onetime Catholic priest and ...

(OSV News) -- In a quiet but powerful move, Vatican News has begun removing artwork by Father Marko Rupnik -- the ...

A million people make wilderness pilgrimage to honour 13th-century Virgin Mary icon - The romería del Rocío has grown into ...

At one month since his election to the papacy May 8, Pope Leo XIV has so far demonstrated a continuity with his predecessor, ...

During a well-attended Pentecost Mass in St Peter’s Square on 8 June 2025, Pope Leo XIV, the first pope from the United States, spoke plainly ...