Rev. Richard D’Souza, 47, will succeed Guy Consolmagno to run one of the oldest scientific observatories in the world.

Bishop Vann also had a private audience with the pope earlier this month, giving him a gift box prepared by local children.

In his first 100 days, Pope Leo XIV has balanced tradition and reform, emerging as an unlikely unifier in a divided U.S.

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy — Pope Leo XIV prayed Friday for a peaceful end to the “increasingly deafening violence” of wars ...

Approximately 200 people, including Castel Gandolfo Mayor Alberto de Angelis, attended the pope’s solemn Mass held at the ...

According to the researchers, attendance rates declined significantly faster in historically Catholic countries than in ...

It would not have been easy for anyone to step into the shoes of the fisherman after Pope Francis, just as it was not easy for Benedict XVI to follow St. John Paul II. But Leo XIV has done so with ...

Alone among its international peers, the United States has no national mandate for paid maternity or paternity leave.

Pope Leo XIV approved expanded benefits for Vatican employees with children, formalizing the five-day paternity leave granted ...

Pope Leo XIV on Friday prayed for an end to global conflicts, the same day as a landmark meeting between President Trump and ...

The Holy Father approves expanding paternity leave, as well as leave for parents with disabled children, and granting family ...

Brian Burch, former longtime president of CatholicVote, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Saturday as the Ambassador to the ...