The Priestly Society of St. Pius X, widely known as SSPX, has announced it will ordain bishops without papal permission on ...

(OSV News) – The Vatican Gardens welcomed a new Marian mosaic and a statue of St. Rose of Lima, both created by young artists ...

Medieval texts and frescoes show how Francis of Assisi’s legends formed – and why his call to poverty and care for creation ...

The Vatican Gardens welcomed a new Marian mosaic and a statue of St. Rose of Lima, both created by young artists from Peru -- in a ceremony that clearly delighted Pope Leo XIV -- an American-born pope ...

He seemed to know everyone at the Holy See, and it showed in his reporting for the National Catholic Reporter and his website ...

Pope Leo XIV has told the Vatican doctrine office to uphold truth, justice and charity when deciding clergy sex abuse cases ...

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Eldoret Bishop Dominic Kimengich as Coadjutor Archbishop of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of ...

Bass player Francis Buchholz from the 1980s hard-rock band The Scorpions has died at 71 following a private battle with ...

Francis Buchholz, bassist for The Scorpions for nearly two decades during the German hard rock band's most successful era, ...

Francis Buchholz, who anchored Scorpions during the hard rock band's greatest commercial and critical peak, dies at 71.

Pope Leo XIV has proclaimed a special Jubilee Year coinciding with the 800th anniversary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi. The Apostolic Penitentiary, a Vatican tribunal that deals with matters ...

Pope Leo XIV and Franciscan friars pray before the tomb of St. Francis in the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, Italy, Nov. 20, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) Pope Leo XIV has proclaimed a special ...