As Pope Leo XIV recovers from lung surgery, experts explain how the Vatican machinery continues running during a papal hospitalization.

Dr. Luigi Carbone coordinates Pope Leo XIV's care at Gemelli Hospital, serving as Vatican health director and chief personal papal physician.

Pope Leo XIV broke with decades of papal secrecy by personally announcing his lung surgery, drawing praise for transparency and humility.

As Pope Leo XIV undergoes lung surgery, Catholics turn to St. Bernardine of Siena, the patron saint of respiratory illnesses and healing.

The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Clergy issued a decree updating the Church’s norms governing Mass intentions and stipends, emphasizing both proper spiritual understanding and practical solutions for ...

A Vatican summit marking 10 years of Amoris Laetitia examined why young people avoid marriage, citing culture and economic insecurity.

Pope Leo XIV called the death penalty ‘inadmissible,’ stressing that justice and safety can be achieved without capital punishment in the US.

In Rome, Bishop Robert Barron affirmed that Catholic theology is deeply aligned with founding American ideals as the U.S. marks 250 years.

VATICAN CITY — Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis’ 2016 apostolic exhortation on the family, is consistent with the Church teaching and practice that came before it, Sister Helen Alford, OP, said at the ...

Pope Leo XIV prayed the rosary for world peace with 700 children in the Vatican Gardens, calling it 50 million Hail Marys rising to heaven.

Pope Leo XIV urged Dominican contemplative nuns to protect silence in a hurried world and listen to the Spirit amid declining vocations.

After more than four decades of investigation into alleged Marian apparitions at Medjugorje in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the head of the Vatican’s doctrine office will hold a press conference Thursday ...