The Vatican released Leo's agenda for day trips to a half-dozen Italian cities over the next six months. The Vatican has ...

In his Feb. 19 address to participants of the religious congregation's General Chapter, the pope said that authority in religious life should serve as a means of "animating common life" centered on ...

Despite a Vatican offer of renewed theological dialogue, the Society of St. Pius X says it will consecrate bishops without papal approval, presenting the pope with a major test of church unity.

"In our time, people are positively eager to claim the mantle of prophecy," writes NCR's Michael Sean Winters. "They think it absolves them from the need for careful moral argumentation." ...

The Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit on the island of Flores cofounded a shelter to provide women with refuge, counseling and legal support in a patriarchal society.

Columnist Daniel P. Horan shares the two songs that have accompanied him through the Winter Games: John Williams' "Olympic Fanfare and Theme" and singer-songwriter Jason Mraz's "Beautiful Mess." ...

During his first Ash Wednesday as pope, Leo framed Lent as a communal reckoning with personal and structural sin.

By July 2025, the U.S. Agency for International Development — established in 1961, and which in 2024 provided $187 million in humanitarian funding to Ghana — effectively ceased to exist, with 85% of ...

"As people of faith, we have an opportunity to push back and offer a compelling vision of the complex and beautiful creatures ...

A longtime associate of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and a two-time presidential candidate, Jackson forged enduring ...

What is shared between these three Abrahamic traditions is the idea that food is never just simply food. Rather, food ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich led a Mass in Chicago, which was attended by relatives of those who have been detained or deported. Cardinal Joseph Tobin celebrated Masses inside an ICE detention center in ...