With the Pope’s decree, both priests can now be beatified. Plus, four other Catholics advance on the path to sainthood. A cross stands in Montse Sole Historical Park in memorial of the victims of the ...

Pope Leo XIV revealed to a group of young American Catholics that he’s a bit of a rogue when it comes to playing Wordle — choosing a different starting word with every game. “I use a different word ...

Pope Leo XIV claims to be in talks with the United States and Israel regarding a peace plan for the Middle East. Speaking to reporters aboard the papal jet on Tuesday as he wrapped up his apostolic ...

The sky over Lebanon — once dominated by missile exchanges and relentless air raids during the 2023–2024 conflict between Hezbollah and Israel — opened Sunday not to warplanes but to the aircraft ...

Pope Leo XIV plans to pray at an Armenian Apostolic cathedral in Istanbul in a gesture supporting Christian unity and Christian minorities in Turkey ANKARA, Turkey -- ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Pope Leo ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV is embarking on his first foreign trip, a pilgrimage to Turkey and Lebanon that would be delicate under any circumstances but is even more fraught given Mideast tensions ...

Pope Leo XIV talks to reporters aboard an airplane as he returns from a six-day visit to Turkey and Lebanon, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (Alessandro Di Meo/Pool Photo via AP) Pope Leo XIV talks to ...

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday shared for the first time what he was thinking when the votes started going his way during the conclave that elected him, saying he resigned ...

Pope Leo XIV began his second day in Lebanon on Monday with a deeply symbolic pilgrimage to the tomb of St. Charbel Makhlouf, entrusting the country and the wider Middle East to the intercession of ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Saturday accepted the resignation of an ailing Spanish bishop who is under church investigation for allegedly sexually abusing a young seminarian in the 1990s, the first ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Pope Leo XIV encouraged Turkey to be a source of stability and dialogue in a world riven by conflict, as he opened his first foreign trip as pope on Thursday with a plea for ...

Pope Leo XIV is encouraging Turkey to be a source of stability and dialogue in a world riven by conflict ANKARA, Turkey -- ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Pope Leo XIV encouraged Turkey to be a source of ...