A May 27 audience with Italian Cardinal Angelo Becciu points to a decision about a key structural reform that arguably ...

For more than 26 years, Pope John Paul II traveled the world with a silver pastoral staff topped with a dramatic, abstract ...

The Borgias became prominent in both ecclesiastical and political affairs, producing two popes: Alfons de Borja, who ruled as ...

Leo XIV has authorized the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints to promulgate the decrees recognizing three new venerables, ...

"It went well but I can't say anything." These are the only words from Cardinal Angelo Becciu after meeting Leo XIV. It was a ...

The papacy, an institution stretching back nearly two millennia, represents one of history's longest unbroken lines of ...

Angelo was fighting his mandatory challenger Kameda in his opponent's home city of Osaka. The 33-year-old Kameda, a former ...

The pontiff received Jannik Sinner in a private audience, who gave him his racket. The Pope's passion for tennis is well ...

FORMER world champion Ginjiro Shigeoka underwent immediate surgery and has remained unconscious after suffering a severe ...

As with any new papacy, a quick look at their first appointments and audiences inside the system offers at least a small ...

Ever since Pope John XXIII was elected in 1958, the successors of St. Peter have established a pattern: pope as disruptor, ...

The days after a pope's death are hectic, and it's a hard time for Vatican officials to examine complex, controversial ...