Pope Leo XIV made a surprise appearance in a crowd of 120,000 young Catholics who gathered on Tuesday in Rome for the Vatican ...

Washington got a reminder of its immense popularity during World War II. Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard, who was doing ...

Pope Leo XIV has surprised tens of thousands of young Catholics by showing up unexpectedly at a Holy Year welcome ceremony ...

The pilgrims have descended on Rome for a special Holy Year celebration of so-called "digital missionaries," part of the ...

Half a million young people are expected to pour into Rome next week for the biggest event of the 2025 Holy Year. The ...

Traditionally, this act of penance and abstinence has been to refrain from eating meat on Fridays. The abstinence from meat ...

Summer should be spent cultivating time with God, relaxing and caring for others, Pope Leo XIV said at Mass during his brief ...

This year’s Easter celebrations in the Holy Land are expected to unfold under a complex and emotional landscape as war continues in Gaza.

Christians around the world have been celebrating Holy Week since last Sunday, the commemoration of the last eight days of the life of Jesus of Nazareth, which is considered the mo ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Thursday opened the most solemn period of Holy Week with a recovering Pope Francis largely on the sidelines, as cardinals were designated to take his place ...