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

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

A Chaldean Catholic bishop in California has resigned and pleaded not guilty after prosecutors accuse him of stealing more ...

Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Louis Sako, the Iraq-based Chaldean Catholic patriarch of Baghdad, ending his 13-year tenure leading Iraq’s largest Christian denomination, the ...

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 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.

(CBS) — Some of the highest ranking Catholic leaders from the U.S. met with Pope Francis to discuss the priest sex abuse crisis that has rocked the church. The U.S. bishops said Pope Francis "listened ...

In a fractured world threatened by war, Christians can strengthen their bonds of unity to show the world that peace is possible, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago said. Leaders in the Catholic ...

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 ...

Pope Leo XIV met Monday with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church and encouraged his ministry, sending a strong signal of welcome in the early months ...

St. Francis used to greet people with a little prayer: “May the Lord grant you peace.” As we reflect on his witness and teachings during this Jubilee Year, let us renew our commitment to bring the ...