This year was filled with unexpected plot twists, moments of celebration, and immense sorrow and tragedy Read part 1 of The ...

A day before Pope Leo XIV spoke by livestream to teens at the 2025 National Catholic Youth Conference, Kristie Hughes Dugan -- president of Little Flower Catholic High Schoo ...

Latin America is still the heart of the Catholic Church. But beneath that Catholic dominance, the region's religious landscape is changing.

Pope Leo XIV’s impact on the Church and the world is expected to come into fuller focus in 2026, his first full calendar year ...

NCR's 10 most-read news stories of 2025 include coverage of the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV, massive aid cuts by the ...

VATICAN CITY — A high-level Vatican commission voted against allowing Catholic women to serve as deacons, maintaining the global Church’s practice of all-male clergy, according to a report given to ...

Pope Leo replaced Cardinal Timothy Dolan as leader of the Catholic Church in New York, the Vatican announced on Thursday, sidelining a prominent U.S. Church figure in a major shake-up of the country's ...