On the 150th anniversary of Pius XII’s birth, Emilio Artiglieri pays tribute to the late wartime pontiff and challenges a ...

In a wide-ranging interview with an Italian paper, Card. Camillo Ruini offered a forthright assessment of the Francis pontificate and flatly called Benedict XVI’s decision to resign “a mistake.” ...

In a bid to head off the crisis, the Vatican’s doctrine chief Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández invited the SSPX superior, the ...

A breakaway Catholic traditionalist group has rejected the Vatican’s offer of talks. The position of the Society of St. Pius ...

The bones of Italy’s patron saint will be shown to the public for a month, to mark the 800th anniversary of his death.

"Vatican II did not drop out of the sky," writes Michael Sean Winters. "There were three essential precursors to St. John XXIII's decision in 1959 to announce he was calling an ecumenical council." ...

ROME — A breakaway Catholic traditionalist group on Thursday rejected the Vatican’s offer of talks, suggesting a collision course with Pope Leo XIV over its planned consecrations of new bishops ...

CatholicPhilly presents a weekly roundup of international news from Vatican News, the official news portal of the Holy See. The following report on the week of Feb. 15, 2026 links to stories on ...

Pope Leo XIV prayed with the sick at the Lourdes grotto in the Vatican Gardens on Feb. 11, asking Our Lady of Lourdes to accompany all those who suffer in the world.

Pope Leo XIV has opened the church's penitential Lenten season by presiding over Ash Wednesday.

Pope Leo faces crisis as breakaway Catholic group rejects Vatican talks - The group said it needs the new bishops as a matter ...

ROME — Pope Leo XIV opened the church’s penitential Lenten season by presiding over Ash Wednesday and lamenting the “ashes of international law and justice” that have been left by today’s wars and ...