Catholic hospitals run 20% of California's maternity wards. Their policies generally prohibit abortion, even in miscarriage, ...

Multiple doctors said her condition was dangerous and she needed immediate treatment but Providence refused to intervene because her twins still had fetal heart tones, according to the complaint.

US Vice President JD Vance was received by Pope Leo XIV on Monday for a private audience, at the end of his visit to Rome.

Pope Leo XIV met JD Vance in the private library of the Apostolic Palace, a day after the pontiff's inaugural Mass.

Vatican City, Holy See (AFP)-Pope Leo XIV received US Vice President JD Vance and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the ...

U.S. Vice President JD Vance and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Pope Leo XIV and top Vatican diplomat Archbishop Paul Gallagher on Monday.

As Pope Leo XIV takes over an often divided Roman Catholic Church and the most prominent pulpit on earth, his voice will be ...

Democratic state Senator Noel Frame sponsored a bill requiring priests to report any alleged child abuse they hear about ...

Experts see the new pontiff as less confrontational than his predecessor, but willing to stand up for the church's teachings.

Pope Leo XIV is being scrutinized for how he might interact with the Trump administration after its rifts with the late Pope ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

Washington state's new law denying clergy an exemption for “privileged communication” for information disclosed during ...