In an undelivered consistory address, the prefect for the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments ...

A leaked document that was distributed to cardinals during Pope Leo XIV's first extraordinary consistory shows that any ...

Centuries-old artifacts tied to the Roman Catholic Church have found their way to museums and private collections around the ...

The expansion of one of the Mediterranean’s strongest powers wasn’t only driven by conquest, but also infrastructure. By ...

The Vatican exists as a country because the Catholic Church is powerful enough that Italy could not erase it without triggering global backlash. After Italy conquered Rome in 1870, the Popes refused ...

In their letter to the Vatican, the diocesan priests specifically question the bishop’s actions to impede the faithful from ...

While providing no specifics, the Vatican said the consistory is taking place "within the context of the life and mission of ...

The closed-door meeting comes as Leo inherits a deeply divided church and seeks to set the tone for his papacy by emphasizing ...

Cardinals at the 2026 consistory left discussions on liturgy and Church governance off their agenda. But Leo XIV said they ...

In his opening address on the afternoon of Jan. 7 to some 170 members of the College of Cardinals who attended the consistory ...

Since his election in May as the first American pope, Leo XIV has become a political and temperamental counterweight to an ...

After his death January 10, 2023, it was revealed Cardinal George Pell was the author known as “Demos,” who wrote an ...