Cardinal Nichols noted that the request to recognize Newman, the most recently canonized saint in England and Wales, had been ...

Pope Leo XIV will declare John Henry Newman a “doctor” of the church, bestowing one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors ...

This was Pope Leo's first visit to the observatory, founded in 1891 by Leo XIII. He later called Aldrin. “Together we shared ...

Saint John Henry Newman – the 19th-century theologian, intellectual and preacher who journeyed from Anglicanism to ...

Peering at the sunlit skies through a Vatican-owned space telescope and calling the last surviving member of the Apollo 11 ...

On July 31, Pope Leo XIV announced that St. John Henry Newman, English theologian, educator, and writer who converted to ...

Pope Leo XIV has decided to declare St John Henry Newman a “doctor” of the church, bestowing one of the Catholic Church’s ...

The Vatican has been involved in astronomy since at least 1582, when astronomers helped Pope Gregory XIII put the calendar in sync with the rotation of the Earth around the sun.

Pope Leo XIV picks up where Pope Francis left off, and embraces a new Mass focused on the environment, care for the Earth and climate change.

Although Gregory IX promulgated the Decretals, Raphael's painting actually depicts Pope Julius II (1503-1513), the pope who commissioned the fresco. Renaissance painters often used artistic license of ...