For millions of Catholics around the world, going to the Vatican is a spiritual experience unlike any other. However, for ...

The Roman Catholic Church cannot bless same-sex marriages, no matter how stable or positive the couples' relationships are, the Vatican said on Monday. The message, approved by Pope Francis, came ...

The Catholic Church will continue to allow blessings for same-sex couples — but not recognition for their unions as ...

The Catholic Church and its priests cannot bless same-sex unions because God "cannot bless sin," the Vatican said Monday. The Vatican's orthodoxy office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the ...

The Mass, along with other steps, show Pope Leo XIV and the Roman Catholic Church building on the environmental commitment of ...

The church’s last council before Vatican II, Vatican I, ended prematurely in 1869 as a result of the Franco-Prussian War and did little of note besides declaring the doctrine of papal infallibility.

Pope Leo XIV has renewed his call for unity within the Catholic Church. He spoke to priests during a special Holy Year week in Rome and he urged them to promote reconciliation and act in communion ...

Why the Catholic Church's future is hard to predict, according to a Vatican expert Updated April 22, 2025 1:33 PM ET Originally published April 22, 2025 4:17 AM ET Heard on Morning Edition ...

The remains of a Congolese customs worker who was killed for resisting a bribe and beatified by the Vatican have been ...

Both Tighe, who hails from Ireland, and English Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican's foreign minister, who presided over the official blessing of the new Rome campus for Australian Catholic ...

Among the beneficiaries were select Catholic schools and churches in West Virginia, tax and church records show. In local news accounts, the recipients were often quoted praising Bransfield ...