“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 ...

A new exhibition in Italy puts the spotlight on Fra Angelico, whose reputation for piety vied with his undeniable artistic talents. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Florence, Italy It was a week ...

“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 ...

Pope Leo XIV has created a new Catholic diocese in northern China with the same name as one established decades ago by Beijing without Vatican approval, underscoring ongoing tensions over how China ...

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. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) Pope Leo XIV has created a new Catholic diocese in northern China ...

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 ...

During another Jubilee Year 75 years ago, Pope Pius XII solemnly proclaimed the dogma of the Assumption. Pius XII — whom the Church now honors as “Venerable” in recognition of his heroic virtue — ...

In doing so, Pope Leo risks placing himself in the shameful legacy of Pope Pius XII, whose silence during the Holocaust remains one of the darkest stains on the modern moral history of the Catholic ...