In a ceremony attended by thousands at the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV canonized seven people as saints within the church. Among ...

Chris Ponnet, who often served as the lone visitor to hundreds dying of COVID-19 and presided over an annual service honoring ...

A disgraced Catholic priest who filmed himself having sex with a pair of dominatrixes on a church’s altar is set to get his electronics back, years after he was arrested for the incident. Travis Clark ...

ST. TAMMANY PARISH, La. — A St. Tammany Parish judge has ordered the return of electronics belonging to an ex-Roman Catholic priest who pleaded guilty to obscenity for being caught having sex with two ...

VATICAN CITY — Every Catholic at Mass, but especially the altar servers, should rejoice that they are in the presence of Jesus, Pope Leo XIV said. “But the Mass is also a serious, solemn moment, ...

Pope Leo XIV said during an audience with French altar servers in Rome on Aug. 25, the feast day of St. Louis IX, king of France, that the shortage of priests is “a great misfortune” for the Catholic ...

Pope Leo XIV speaks to altar servers from France during a meeting in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Aug. 25, 2025. More than 350 altar servers from 18 French dioceses took part in the pilgrimage.

The year 2026 will mark a monumental change in the religious history of Alaska. For the first time in nearly 140 years, there will no longer be any Jesuit priests in the state. "The Jesuits were ...