The image, captured 53 years ago this weekend during the Vietnam War, galvanized the anti-war movement in the U.S. But a new documentary raises questions about who was behind the camera.

Pope Leo XIV held the third general audience of his pontificate on Wednesday, telling the faithful that even when we feel useless and inadequate, “the Lord reminds us that our life is worthy ...

With all that happened in the Catholic Church last month, we can be forgiven for missing the 10th anniversary of Laudato Si', Pope Francis’ encyclical on global warming. Pope Francis fell ill ...

Pope Leo XIV recalled the life and legacy of Cardinal in Pectore Iuliu Hossu, a Romanian Greek Catholic bishop, “pastor and martyr of the faith during the communist persecution in Romania ...

Pope Francis promised to return the artifacts to communities in Canada as part of what he called a “penitential pilgrimage” for abuses against Indigenous people by the Church. But several ...

Heidi Schlumpf, Daniel P. Horan, and David Dault gather for a special episode of "The Francis Effect" podcast to look at the first weeks of the papacy of Pope Leo XIV. How do I listen? Click the ...

Palestinian poet and author Mosab Abu Toha was recently awarded a 2025 Pulitzer Prize for a series of essays published in the New Yorker magazine documenting life in Gaza during the war with Israel.

(AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file) Pope Leo XIV smiles while leaving after his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, May 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) A view ...

Shawn McKnight held up the the apostolic mandate naming him as archbishop of Kansas City in Kansas at Leawood’s Church of the Nativity on Tuesday. Facebook/Archbishop Shawn McKnight Cardinal ...

This was not a rejection of the deliberate simplicity of Pope Francis but a conscious effort to connect himself “and with it his pontificate” to his predecessors and the long customs and ...

Renzo Pegoraro, the longtime deputy of its outgoing president, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, signaling a desire to continue the course set under Pope Francis. Until his appointment on Tuesday ...

In his first Regina Caeli from the window of the Apostolic Palace, Pope Leo XIV thanked the faithful for the affection they have shown him while also asking them — as his predecessor Francis ...