With a 21-cannon salute, Pope Francis was welcomed to Papua New Guinea Sept. 6, the second stop on his four-nation visit to Asia and the Pacific.

Pope Francis’ trip to Asia and Oceania in September will be a trip of religious, economic and social contrasts.

More than a week after the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games, the Vatican joined people who complained that a segment of the show featuring drag performers offended Christians.

Pope Francis visited an amusement park an hour outside of Rome to greet workers, their families and the two nuns providing pastoral care there.

Paris is not a city, it's a world, they say, and so is the rich Catholic culture visible in its people and places. We gathered nine names of Parisian saints to accompany Catholics in 2024 -- the year of the Olympics and reopening of iconic Notre Dame Cathedral.

Message for World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly from His Grace Most Reverend Francis Leo Metropolitan Archbishop of Toronto

Children of Vatican employees began their summer holidays at a new outdoor sports area and pool as part of an annual summer program.

Vatican rulings on allegedly supernatural phenomena, such as Marian apparitions, will continue to be released publicly, but official validation of an event's supernatural status -- as has happened at Lourdes, Fatima and Guadalupe -- would be "exceptional," the Vatican's doctrine chief said.

The working document for the October assembly of the Synod of Bishops on synodality has called for responses to how all the baptized can better serve the Catholic Church and help heal humanity's "deepest wounds."