This animated history video looks at several of the most controversial popes ever to hold power. It covers scandals involving ...

On June 2, 1979, Pope John Paul II set out from Rome on an apostolic journey, as papal trips away from the Vatican are called. In the eight months since his election, the former Karol Wojtyła had ...

Pope Leo XIV has been in the headlines this week as the latest target of President Donald Trump’s online criticism. According to CBS News, the president was triggered by a recent “60 Minutes” episode, ...

In 1867 the U.S. Congress ended diplomatic relations with the Papal States over misleading reports that the Pope’s government restricted American Protestant services in Rome. Some members of Congress ...

It was a class reunion like no other. Ten 1969 graduates of St. Mary of the Assumption school on the city’s Far South Side traveled to Vatican City to reconnect with a fellow alum whom they now call ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV continued his catechesis on the documents of the Second Vatican Council at his Wednesday general audience, reflecting on the Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium and the ...

Alberto Pizzoli / AFP via Getty Images The ongoing war of words between President Trump and Pope Leo XIV is unparalleled in modern history. It’s not new for popes to speak out on political issues, ...