Pope Leo XIV has criticized prison overcrowding during a special Mass for detainees, guards and their families.

On Sunday, Pope Leo XIV called for nations to give out amnesties and pardons to prisoners during the Jubilee year.

Pope Leo XIV has strongly criticised prison overcrowding and inadequate inmate rehabilitation programmes, delivering his message during a special Mass for detainees, guards, and their families at the ...

The women meet all the requirements except one: they're not men. As deacons, they could preach at Mass and preside over baptisms, weddings and funerals.

A Vatican report on women deacons published last week said that women could not be admitted to the diaconate “understood as a ...

After years of negotiations starting with a visit by the late Pope Francis in 2022, the Vatican repatriated a wealth of ...

Pope Leo XIV marked the popular Marian feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe by asking that Mary to intercede in the effort to ...

In fact, the Wikimedia Foundation announced Dec. 2 that "Deaths in 2025" -- an entry that includes Pope Francis -- was their ...

In a time marked by increased conflict and division, we need authentic testimonies of human kindness and charity to remind us ...

From a bird's-eye view high above St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, a stunning photograph shows the estimated 250,000 mourners who gathered for the funeral of Pope Francis. Another photo, taken at ...

"Our relatives are finally home. For First Nations, these are not only artifacts. They are sacred, living items," National ...

The pope also said that Europe should be involved in security guarantees for Ukraine after meeting with Ukrainian President ...