Pope Leo XIV on Sunday heads to the papal summer residence for a six-week vacation, giving the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo back its most illustrious resident after Pope Francis stayed away during ...

The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania all have conscription, as do several of the Nordic countries, as well as Turkey and Greece.

French Archbishop Thibault Verny is the Vatican's new president of its Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors ...

The prelate succeeds U.S.-born Cardinal Seán O’Malley, 81, the founding president of the safeguarding commission established ...

The pontiff will stay on the hilltop Vatican property “for a period of rest” from the afternoon of July 6 to the afternoon of ...

While some victims have praised the commission's efforts, it has also been roiled by the resignations of several of its ...

IN the sun-scorched high desert of Northern Nevada lies a tiny self-declared country with its very own dictator and armed ...

Advocates for families of active-duty troops, legal scholars and ex-military leaders critique the decision to deploy U.S.

” Minter-Jordan said. Being in the ancient city of Rome, particularly as the 267th pope was elected on May 8, “There’s this sense of history, this sense of resiliency that’s in the city, and a sense ...