The Latest Breaking News from the Catholic Church

Pope Francis marked a week in hospital with pneumonia Friday, as speculation grew over the 88-year-old's ability to continue leading the Catholic Church.

The method the Catholic Church uses to select their leader has remained virtually unchanged for the last 800 years

Shocking new emails show how far officials from the New Orleans Saints went to help church leaders handle the fallout from a sex scandal.

Pope Francis has convened a high-level summit to demand that children be protected from war, forced labor, trafficking and exploitation

Kennedy Jr denied and downplayed past controversial comments during his hearing for HHS secretary.

The Vatican is warning the public about the potential abuse of AI.

Pope Francis has proclaimed a Jubilee year in the Catholic Church, which began on Dec. 24, 2024, and will continue through Jan. 6, 2026. But what is a Jubilee, and what is this year’s about?

In January 2015, 12 people were killed at the French satirist magazine Charlie Hebdo’s office after it published controversial caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. Ten years later, the tragic events continue to resonate in global conversations about limits to the freedom of expression.

Luce, the anime-inspired official mascot for the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee, whose name means “light” in Italian, has been getting a lot of attention on social media. Some people love the cartoon and find her “cute,” but a few others consider her “unsuitable” and even “repugnant.”