From a bird's-eye view high above St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, a stunning photograph shows the estimated 250,000 ...

While in prison in 1981, he befriended the dissident and future Czech president Vaclav Havel. Later, he became a conservative ...

Filmmaker Francesca Scorsese reveals to USA TODAY what it was like to direct her father, Martin Scorsese, in an episode of ...

Pope Leo XIV urged an end to hostilities as Thailand and Cambodia engaged in a fresh, undeclared war over a longstanding ...

Pope Leo XIV will receive President Peter Pellegrini for a private audience on Thursday (4 December), TASR was told by the President's Office's communications department on Monday. The visit will ...

Pope Leo XIV has criticized prison overcrowding during a special Mass for detainees, guards and their families.

The Vatican said an estimated 6,000 people signed up to participate in the weekend pilgrimage, including representatives from ...

The world lost influential people in 2025, and some of their deaths had significant impacts. Here is a roll call of some ...

Pope Leo XIV begins a six-day visit to Turkey and Lebanon on Thursday, his first foreign trip since his election and one on which he’s expected to emphasize key themes of his fledgling pontificate – ...

Pope Leo XIV marked the start of Advent on Saturday with an appeal for unity and peace, telling thousands gathered for Mass in Istanbul that Christians “journey as if on a bridge that connects earth ...

Country’s political system has been prone to deadlock with lengthy power vacuums and regular stalemates over controversial ...

Pope Leo XIV called on the world's religious communities to break down "the walls of prejudice and mistrust" that divide them at his first Mass abroad, rounding out a day of interreligious outreach ...