Paulina Guzik OSV News

ROME  — Pope Leo XIV strongly defended the family, marriage and unborn life during his first-ever New Year's address to the diplomatic corps Jan....

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV gathered cardinals present for the extraordinary consistory this week for an early morning Mass Jan. 8 in St....

ROME  -- Cardinals from around the world are gathering in Rome Jan. 7-8 for an extraordinary consistory called by Pope Leo XIV, an event...

VATICAN CITY (OSV News) -- After a jubilee year not seen for centuries -- with one pope opening the Holy Door and another closing...

As 2025 draws to a close, the plight of persecuted Christians around the world remains dire -- and in many places, deeply forgotten. The...

KRAKOW, Poland  -- Entering the centuries-old Royal Wawel Cathedral in Kraków on Dec. 20, Cardinal Grzegorz Rys opened a new chapter of one of...

Following his Dec. 15 conviction under Hong Kong's draconian national security law, media entrepreneur and pro-democracy advocate Jimmy Lai faces the possibility of life...

Hong Kong's prominent Catholic, media tycoon and pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai has been convicted of national security offenses under the city's controversial national security...

Two Belarusian Catholic priests listed as political prisoners of the regime were freed Nov. 20, following the October visit of papal envoy to the...

As reports spread that U.S. President Donald Trump appealed directly to China's Xi Jinping to free jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai when...