Greeting tens of thousands of visitors crowded in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Leo XIV welcomed all the young people who arrived in Rome for the Jubilee of Youth.

Religious communities can “contribute to the global architecture of disarmament and restraint” in several “specific ways” that foster dialogue, prevention and accountability, said Cardinal Silvano Maria Tomasi, a longtime Vatican diplomat and disarmament advocate.

The Catholic Church in Poland is grappling with a shocking tragedy: A diocesan priest has confessed to the brutal murder of a homeless man.

More than half a million young people from 146 countries are set to arrive July 28 for the start of the weeklong Jubilee of Youth, which will include a special Jubilee dedicated to Digital Missionaries and Catholic Influencers.

Close to 800 young men from the Archdiocese of New York have responded to a call for interest in the priestly life, according to the archdiocese’s director of vocations.

For high school students yearning to attend a Catholic college, there is an encouraging development: Many Catholic institutions of higher learning are increasingly committed to making academia accessible through free, full tuition programs.

Archbishop Edward J. Weisenburger of Detroit fired two prominent theologians from their longstanding roles at Sacred Heart Major Seminary July 23.

A lineup of Los Angeles business leaders joined Archbishop José H. Gomez July 23 to unveil a new fund aimed at helping families affected by recent immigration raids.

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee July 22 released an interim staff report alleging the FBI surveilled a Catholic priest after he declined to speak about conversations he had with a suspected neo-Nazi defendant, a self-described “radical traditional Catholic clerical fascist” the FBI was investigating for making violent threats online.

Thousands of young Poles made their way through the streets of Czestochowa July 19, singing and praying as they approached the Jasna Góra Marian shrine.