Pope Leo XIV called the issue of LGBTQ+ people in the church “highly polarizing.” ...

The bishop of a small Chaldean Catholic community in California has resigned and pleaded not guilty to embezzlement and money ...

Pope Francis, Latin America’s first pontiff, died at age 88 after a cerebral stroke. Francis stressed humility over hubris for a Catholic Church beset with scandal.

The illness marks one of the gravest health challenges of the pope's 12-year papacy.

Bishop Emanuel Shaleta pleaded not guilty to embezzlement and money laundering charges during his arraignment.

Yet, that does not mean his challenges were not plentiful. The new Pope is left with a complicated church to contend with. Here are some of the challenges that Leo will face as he takes up the mantle ...

In a wide-ranging interview with an Italian paper, Card. Camillo Ruini offered a forthright assessment of the Francis pontificate and flatly called Benedict XVI’s decision to resign “a mistake.” ...

Pope Leo XIV has opened the church’s penitential Lenten season by presiding over Ash Wednesday. He is lamenting the “ashes of ...

The report denounces “male chauvinism" and “clericalism,” making the case that in his brief pontificate, Pope Leo XIV has continued down Francis’ path of appointing women to positions of leadership in ...

Leo is in a unique position to offer the kind of moral leadership that the Catholic tradition, at its most serious, demands ...