I have decided to have surgery,” the 71-year-old pope told St. Peter’s Square. His candor caps a half-century turn in how the ...

Before the conclave, Cardinal Robert Prevost praised Bernardin and Cupich and said a pro-death-penalty Catholic can’t claim ...

The pope’s message came two days after the Pentagon set a Dec. 3 firing squad for Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan. Cardinal ...

Opening a weeklong Vatican summit on the exhortation’s 10th anniversary, the pope put mercy and the freedom of the Holy Spirit at the center. Critics hoping for a rollback heard none of it.

JD Vance’s top donor also lumped the pope in with Barack Obama, saying “Obama knows the Democrats have no ideas, but they can ...

Hours after the U.S. bishops’ president called the Pentagon’s livestreamed firing squad barbaric, JD Vance said only that he ...

Francis died with nothing left in his hands, singing about the sun. Before tonight is over, perhaps you can go outside and ...

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At Lourdes this morning, Pope Leo XIV told 150,000 pilgrims to repent “today, not tomorrow.” In today’s parable, the son who ...

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The full address is sharper than the tweet. Leo warned the artists that search engines “merely return what already exists and tend to give us what we already want,” and he named the risk that follows: ...