A priest cannot violate his mission to reconcile sinners to God through the sacrament of confession without imperiling his own soul.

identifying artificial intelligence as the biggest threat to humanity. In his first formal audience Saturday, Leo also committed to making the Catholic Church more inclusive. Pope Leo XIV made a ...

He offered a blessing and then got back into the passenger seat of the car, a black Volkswagen, with Vatican security alongside ... commitment to making the Catholic Church more inclusive and ...

The Catholic Church announced that priests will be excommunicated if they follow a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report confessions about child abuse to law enforcement.

The support staff for the cardinals who will elect the successor to Pope Francis took an oath of secrecy Monday ahead of the ...

The Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests is calling for the new pope to impose a zero-tolerance policy.

Prevost had reposted a tweet which reads: "As Trump & Bukele use Oval to Feds’ illicit deportation of a US resident, once an ...

Markets are getting jittery about Jay Powell’s job security, and the world is mourning ... the management of the Vatican itself, of the Catholic Church as an institution. He wasn’t really ...

and maintain the majesty and ritual appropriate for the election of the next head of the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church. Of the 133 cardinals expected to vote at the conclave, 108 were ...

As the Vatican prepared for the conclave, its child protection advisory commission on Monday urged cardinals to prioritize the clergy sexual abuse issue, saying the Catholic Church's very ...

and maintain the majesty and ritual appropriate for the election of the next head of the 1.4 billion strong Catholic Church. The cardinals will be living in residences on Vatican grounds ...