Odds-makers likely had an easier time 20 years ago, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger stepped onto the balcony overlooking St.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance extended an invitation to Pope Leo XIV to visit the United States during a meeting at the ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A quiet alliance between North and South American cardinals helped elect the first US-born pope.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance gave Pope Leo XIV a special Chicago-themed gift during a meeting at the Vatican on Monday.

Simony, properly defined by the Catholic Church as the selling of ecclesiastical offices and positions, has been designated ...