VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican unveiled its Nativity scene Monday and lit the 25-meter (82-foot) Christmas tree that towers ...

Pope Leo XIV has criticized prison overcrowding during a special Mass for detainees, guards and their families.

ROME -- Pope Leo XIV criticized prison overcrowding and insufficient inmate rehabilitation programs on Sunday as he ...

The Vatican said an estimated 6,000 people signed up to participate in the weekend pilgrimage, including representatives from ...

The ancient liturgy honors the Blessed Virgin Mary through a Mass celebrated at dawn, in complete darkness, and lit only by ...

For the world's 1.4 billion Catholics and for millions of other people as well, the Catholic Church's 2025 was primarily ...

A high-level Vatican commission voted against allowing Catholic women to serve as deacons, maintaining the global Church's ...

But a papal commission examining the question said further study was required, and advised that women should be given other ...

A second Vatican study commission has determined that women should not be ordained as deacons. The Vatican on Thursday took ...

The pope celebrated Mass with some 5,000 people, many foreign-born Catholics, in an intimate Istanbul arena on Nov. 29, his last full day in Turkey.

A robust pastoral plan across the country that recognizes Christ in the migrant is needed urgently for the even darker days ...

At the conclusion of the conference, Mass in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe will take place at 4 p.m. local time in St. Peter ...