In this episode, we dive into a series of candid interviews conducted by veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O'Connell with ...

For those (arch)dioceses that do not mark today as the Ascension, the liturgical calendar allows celebration of the optional ...

TODAY the Church celebrates the feast day of St Paul VI, who is recognised as a great defender of life and family. He is best ...

Over the coming months, expect to see royals from across the world be granted a coveted private audience with the ...

VATICAN CITY — Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV called for humanitarian aid to be allowed into war-torn Gaza, decrying the violence and suffering in the Middle East during his first general audience as ...

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Americans packed St. Peter’s Square on Sunday to see one of their own begin his reign ...

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who later became Pope Benedict XVI, gives a lecture in New York in January 1988. He died Dec. 31, 2022, at the age of 95 in his residence at the Vatican. (OSV News photo ...

The other symbolically important moment of the Mass is the representational rite of obedience to Leo: Whereas in the past all cardinals would vow obedience to the new pope, more recent papal ...

After leaving the Marines and beginning his higher education, Vice President JD Vance drifted into atheism — struggling, he would eventually write, with feelings of “irrelevance” in his ...

Tens of thousands of people are streaming into St. Peter's Square for the formal installation service of history's first American pope.

For centuries it also involved a “coronation,” which included placing the papal tiara on the new pope’s head. The last papal “coronation” was of Paul VI in 1963.

Thousands streamed into St. Peter’s Square early Sunday to inaugurate Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate, joining presidents and princes in celebrating first US Pope ...