(CORRECTION: This story was updated because an earlier version included an incorrect date.) White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City on Thursday evening local time, ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Unlike Pope Francis, who shook things up early on with a flurry of reforms, appointments and new ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Leo XIV met Tuesday (Oct. 7) with a group of U.S. Latino Catholics who are working to help immigrants threatened by President Donald Trump’s deportation policies, telling ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — At the Vatican’s Jubilees of the Missions and of Migrants, Latino Catholics ask for dignity, visibility and hope. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Rosa Bonilla knows firsthand the fear and ...

For Miami, known as the gateway to Latin America, the choice of a new multi-lingual, American-born pope who worked for years in Peru has enormous significance. After at least four rounds of voting, ...

In a private audience, Pope Leo XIV consoled a group of U.S. Latino Catholics who work with immigrants targeted by the Trump administration’s hardline immigration policies, telling them that they are ...

ROME — Inside the frescoed nave of a church near the Colosseum, women in black veils and clean-cut young men listened in reverent silence to a largely forbidden rite: a Roman Catholic Mass in Latin. A ...

Nate Tinner-Williams, a contributing Globe Opinion writer, is cofounder and editor of Black Catholic Messenger. As the excitement in Rome dies down after the first week of Pope Leo XIV, I am left ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — ‘He treated us like dignitaries. He sent a message by having us there. He lifted us,’ said Elizabeth Román, president of the National Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry.