City leaders vowed to repair or replace the damaged artwork by sculptor Paul Dubois, which is on loan from the Musée d'Orsay ...

Christians from across Toronto will unite later this month to echo Christ's own plea that we may all be one as part of this year’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

The Catholic Church in eastern Indonesia has formally opened the beatification process for Bishop Arnoldus Johannes Hubertus ...

By Salvatore Cernuzio 2025 was an unforgettable year, marked by the death of Pope Francis and the election of Pope Leo XIV in ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) To many observers, Benedict, who died on Dec. 31, 2022 at the age of 95, was known for ...

Pope Benedict XVI (1927–2022), the 265th pope, served from April 19, 2005, to February 28, 2013—a period of 7 years, 10 ...

On the second day of his visit to Turkey, Leo flew to Iznik, the ancient city of Nicaea, where he joined Patriarch Bartholomew I, leader of the world's Orthodox Christians and other dignitaries at the ...

The American pope began his four-day visit on Thursday in Ankara where he urged President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to embrace Turkey's role as a source of "stability and rapprochement between peoples" in ...

Japan’s diplomatic relations with the Vatican date back to the arrival of Francis Xavier (1502–1552) and the subsequent history of the hidden Christians. This is not remembered by the Vatican as a ...

Pope Leo XIV is being pushed by Western powers to mediate an end to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It’s a responsibility that the pontiff is eager to take on and Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...

The odds-makers likely had an easier time 20 years ago, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, long a loyal servant of Pope John Paul II and dean of the college of cardinals, stepped onto the balcony ...