This year marks the 1700th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea (325)! The word ecumenical comes from the Greek oikoumene (οἰκουμένη), which translates as “the whole inhabited ...

Shortly after Pope Leo XIV’s election on May 8, genealogists got to work researching his family tree, quickly establishing ...

Pope Leo XIV is marking a feast day as the Vatican launches a new campaign to boost donations from the faithful. Leo ...

During the celebration, Pope Leo XIV revived the ancient tradition of personally imposing the pallium on new metropolitan ...

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday spoke about unity in the Catholic Church after bestowing the pallium on 54 new metropolitan archbishops on the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, patrons of the city of Rome.

Leo XIV did so at a mass to mark the martyrdom of saints Peter and Paul under Emperor Nero, between AD 64 and 68. Peter was crucified upside down beneath what is now the main altar of the Basilica ...