Each cardinal wears a tiny, stemmed red hat, and they’re not the only ones — bishops wear pink (technically the color is “amaranth”) hats, the pope wears one in white and lower priests ...

The Catholic Church lobbied hard against a bill that would allow the terminally ill to end their lives in Illinois. Why should Illinois medical laws be expected to fall in line with Catholic doctrine?

If the best metric for judging a comedy show is the amount of laughter, then Stand Up for Jesus was an undeniable success. It also might hold a key to understanding what constitutes Catholic comedy.

Pope Leo XIV, formerly Bishop Robert Prevost, confronts the Vatican's significant financial challenges, including a structural deficit and pension shortfall. His American background is expected to ...

Pope Leo has addressed cardinals in English at the start of his first Mass, saying 'you have called me to carry the cross and to be blessed' as he asks for their help to spread the Catholic faith.

A new photo of Leo XIV stands by frescoes representing past papal visits to a Virgin Mary icon in the Sanctuary of Our Mother of Good Counsel, commemorating where he prayed two days ...

As a bishop in Peru, Robert Prevost was often on the lookout for used cars that he could buy cheap and fix up himself for use in parishes around his diocese. With cars that were really broken down, he ...

The Shakespeare scholar Clare Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, delivered the annual Allen Hall Lecture last week and ...

Catholic leaders in Iran and Israel are praying for peace as violence between the two nations continues to escalate following Israel’s attack on Iran on June 13.

Collectively, they form the College of Cardinals. Provisions regarding their selection, rank, roles, and prerogatives are detailed in Canons 349 to 359 of the Code of Canon Law of the Catholic Church.

Marking Corpus Christi Sunday, Cardinal Zen, 93, retired bishop of Hong Kong, posted a photo of himself holding a monstrance ...

Cardinal Dominique Mathieu of the Archdiocese of Tehran–Isfahan in Iran as well as Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem in Israel, are both praying for peace at a ...