With the Pope’s decree, both priests can now be beatified. Plus, four other Catholics advance on the path to sainthood.

“Never meet your heroes” is an old adage, but it’s apparently one that Surrealist superstar Salvador Dalí never paid much mind. In fact, even after a disappointing meeting with the father of ...

“Seldom in history have a man’s four-score years been turned with greater joy to all men who seek peace and righteousness here on earth, with greater and holier triumph following long days when bodily ...

A newly created Catholic diocese in China’s Hebei province ordained its first bishop, selected under the recently renewed but secretive Vatican-China agreement on bishop appointments, says a report.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Giuseppe Wang Zhengui, 62, was installed and ordained as the first bishop of the new Diocese of Zhangjiakou, China, on Wednesday (Sept. 10) in an important milestone for a ...

A visitor waves the flag of China in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in this file photo from May 22, 2019. Credit: CNS photo/Paul Haring VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Leo XIV formally suppressed two ...

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV prayed Friday for a peaceful end to the “increasingly deafening violence” of wars around the world as he celebrated a Catholic feast day on the same day as a ...

Pope Leo XIV prayed Friday for a peaceful end to the "increasingly deafening violence" of wars around the world as he celebrated a Catholic feast day on the same day as a high-stakes U.S.-Russia ...

"We will not remain silent!" said Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, leader of the Roman Catholic Church in the Holy Land, in a July 18 interview with La Repubblica. "We have never been silent during ...

Inside China’s Rare Earth Empire: The Hidden Costs in Myanmar Japan’s diplomatic relations with the Vatican date back to the arrival of Francis Xavier (1502–1552) and the subsequent history of the ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Almost 13 years have passed since a pope spent part of his summer at the papal residence of Castel Gandolfo, a hilltop town overlooking Lake Albano, just outside Rome. So, when ...