Michael Pham knows what it feels like to struggle for breath in a cloud of tear gas. Pham was born in Vietnam in 1967 as the war reached a boiling point, and his family repeatedly tried to flee the ...

Catholic Charities organizations are rallying to support communities devastated by the more than 70 tornadoes that tore through the central United States last week.

The 133 cardinal electors sequestered in the Sistine Chapel elected a new pope May 8. The choice was a surprise — ...

In his first appointment of a top-level official of the Roman Curia, Pope Leo XIV named Sister Tiziana Merletti, a canon ...

Before he was Pope Leo XIV, then-Bishop Robert F. Prevost of Chiclayo, Peru, created a commission to help women escape forced ...

The clergyman admitted his wrongdoing, and the archdiocese reported the woman’s accusations to the sheriff’s department, ...

The clergyman admitted his wrongdoing, and the archdiocese reported the woman’s accusations to the sheriff’s department, ...

Arevalo-Garazatua looks back on the five years she knew the man who would become Pope Leo XIV as a gift. “We loved him so much,” she said. “Father Roberto did ...

The Roman Catholic Church’s first American pope is likely to continue many priorities of his predecessor, the late Pope ...

Pope Leo XIV holds his first general audience in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday, issuing an appeal for Gaza, which he calls ...

"May the Lord guide and sustain you as you embark on this weighty new ministry," wrote President Nelson, President Oaks, ...

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, on Thursday made his first American bishop appointment as he named Bishop Michael Pham as bishop of San Diego, California.