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

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

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

Pope Leo has dissolved a high-level Catholic commission established to encourage donations to the Vatican, the Vatican said ...

A Vatican report on women deacons published last week said that women could not be admitted to the diaconate “understood as a ...

Pope Leo XIV has taken his biggest step yet to correct one of Pope Francis’ more problematic financial moves, canceling a ...

A commission chosen by the late Pope Francis to study the possibility of women becoming deacons in the Catholic Church has ...

Pope Leo’s updates to the Vatican labor code attempt to streamline a Curia under pressure, from pension woes to a dwindling ...

ROME -- A second Vatican study commission has determined that women should not be ordained as deacons, dealing another ...

Traveling through the Mideast, Leo XIV channeled many of his predecessor’s messages. Leo’s deliberate manner differed from ...

Indigenous leaders waited on the snowy tarmac at Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport Saturday as the precious cargo was unloaded from an Air Canada jet.

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