The Vatican has returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada. This move is part of the Catholic Church’s effort to ...

Growing up as a Muslim child of immigrants in Mainz, surrounded by a rich Catholic culture, I experienced firsthand both the beauty and the tension that can come from living between religious worlds.

Here’s a look back at some of the significant events that have defined Chicago’s Holy Name Cathedral and its congregation.

Pope Leo XIV, center, cheers with Britain's King Charles III in the St. Damasus Courtyard at the Vatican ‘Malicious’: Fresh blow to North Korea Australia's de facto online gambling regulator stops ...

Pope Leo XIV and King Charles III pray together in the Sistine Chapel during a historic meeting at the Vatican, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. Credit: Vatican Media History was made in the Sistine Chapel on ...

In a 1902 apostolic letter marking his 25th year in the Petrine ministry, Pope Leo XIII reflects that “the ardent desire of Our heart was not only to enlighten minds, but also to move and purify ...

In recent decades, canonizations have often been scheduled for October, and so frequently fall on World Mission Sunday, the second-to-last Sunday in October. It was established in 1926 by Pope Pius XI ...

On Sept. 14, 1998, Pope St. John Paul II — whose feast the Church celebrates on Oct. 22 — issued the encyclical Fides et Ratio on the relationship between faith and reason. John Paul II opened the ...

The Vatican is expected to soon announce that it will return a few dozen artifacts to Indigenous communities in Canada as part of its reckoning with the Catholic Church's troubled role in helping ...