Pope Leo's selection had spurred optimism that the Church's stance on female deacons might change. That was not to be the case.

The anniversary offers an opportunity to reflect not just on what the document says, but on the young papacy of Leo XIV.

The Catholic Church is more than 2,000 years old. Declaring war on it is hardly civilized or politically smart. Trump has ...

Pope Leo revealed on Tuesday that at the moment of his election as leader of the 1.4 billion-member Catholic Church, he ...

A high-level Vatican commission voted against allowing Catholic women to serve as deacons, maintaining the global Church's ...

Father Paolo Capra, pastor at St. Augustine, made the trip to Istanbul with the brick, which will be the first stone of the ...

Traveling through the Mideast, Leo XIV channeled many of his predecessor’s messages. Leo’s deliberate manner differed from ...

COMMENTARY: The Pope’s trip to Turkey and Lebanon yielded tangible results — strengthening Orthodox-Catholic ties and issuing ...

Michael Bublé called meeting Pope Leo XIV on Friday “one of the greatest moments of my life” as he prepares to headline the ...

Pope Leo XIV’s profile is among the most viewed pages on the digital encyclopedia Wikipedia and was one of the most searched ...

This was not a normal Sunday for churchgoers in Pleasant Grove. They learned that Friday, one of the foundation bricks for ...

Argument against female deacons includes wish to preserve ‘masculinity of Christ’ and of those who receive holy orders ...