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Pope Leo XIV will meet with survivors of clergy abuse during a four-day trip to France next month that will include a visit to UNESCO headquarters, a meeting with French bishops in Lourdes and an...

“Commit yourselves, dear young people, to the civilization of love,” the pontiff said, “whose first signs you have encountered in so many examples of selfless giving, and which — in the image of...

The Nov. 6-17 trip will include stops in Montevideo, Paysandú and Florida in Uruguay; Buenos Aires, Córdoba and Luján in Argentina; and Lima, Chiclayo, Cusco and Pucallpa in Peru.

The pontiff said he was “following with concern the alarming situation in Ceuta,” where as many as 60 thousand migrants charged the frontier of the autonomous peninsular Spanish city last week.

Rock legend Patti Smith was giddy and almost at a loss for words when she met Friday with Pope Leo XIV.

In an exclusive interview with NBC News, which aired Wednesday evening, the pope answered a direct question regarding his plans to visit the country of his birth.

The pope’s new appeal came in remarks following the Angelus prayer on Sunday at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo.

Wildfires in France and Spain have killed at least one person, displaced more than 250 thousand others, and destroyed 400 thousand acres of land.

“Reports concerning any deliberation by the judges handling the case of Father Marko Ivan Rupnik are entirely unfounded,” reads a statement from the press office of the Holy See shared with...

The attorney for five of the women who accuse Fr. Marko Rupnik of serial sexual, psychological, and spiritual abuse has written to Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez, head of the Vatican department...