The red-covered Pontifical Yearbook — known in Italian as the “Annuario Pontificio” — is an important reference updated every ...

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday voiced deep concern over renewed fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, urging an ...

Today in History for Dec. 23: ...

In 2018, German artist Michael Triegel asked a homeless man in Rome to pose for a drawing, thinking that he would make an ...

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

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

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

As the Vatican unveils its crèches, Pope Leo XIV marks his first Christmas with a calmer tone and a forceful call against ...

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

As the subway line continues onward past the Colosseum, it will run underneath more of the world’s most important cultural ...

Three Thai civilians were killed as heavy combat continued along the country’s border with Cambodia, the Thai military said ...

The Lobos survived a six-minute scoring drought late in the second half to knock off VCU 81-78 at the Siegel Center in ...