Catholics and all people committed to protecting the planet must keep climate action from slipping into trends or tribalism, Pope Leo XIV said as he opened a global church summit on climate change ...

The Hamas attack on Israel two years ago "was inhuman and indefensible," the Vatican secretary of state said, and Israel's two-year-long war on Gaza has had "disastrous and inhuman consequences." "It ...

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican's top diplomat sharply criticized Israel's "ongoing massacre" in Gaza in comments published on Monday - one of the Catholic Church's strongest condemnations of Israel's war ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican announces first trip of Pope Leo XIV's papacy, to Turkey and Lebanon from Nov. 27-Dec. 2. (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert erroneously left out Leo's full title.).

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Leo XIV has begun correcting some of Pope Francis' more questionable financial reforms and decisions, canceling a law Monday that had concentrated financial power in the Vatican ...

A mighty enclave in the depths of the Italian landscape, Vatican City is 110 acre or 0.44 square kilometer territory with a population of less than 1,000. 110 of those inhabitants constitute the Swiss ...

The Vatican’s digitization efforts are focused on their one-of-a-kind historic manuscript collection as well as some of its oldest books, incunabula books printed during the earliest period of ...

The Swiss Guard's new uniform is for events outside the Vatican. The world's smallest army, charged with guarding the pope and the Vatican, has a new look. The Swiss Guard on Thursday unveiled a new ...

Arnold Schwarzenegger told reporters he knows that people get "pumped up" spiritually at Mass, but he wishes he could go to Mass at least once and hear a homily on what Catholics can and should do to ...

Arnold Schwarzenegger downplayed the Trump administration’s climate skepticism Tuesday and threw his weight behind the Vatican’s environmental initiative, saying individual choice, local regulations ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Arnold Schwarzenegger downplayed the Trump administration’s climate skepticism Tuesday and threw his weight behind the Vatican’s environmental initiative, saying individual choice, ...