The Vatican on Wednesday urged a breakaway Catholic group dedicated to the old Latin mass to cancel plans to ordain new bishops without consent from Pope Leo.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic LGBTQ+ advocates cheered this week when a Vatican working group released a report featuring the testimony of two gay, married Catholics who spoke openly about their sexuality, faith and how the Catholic Church’s negative…
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Pope Leo at the Vatican on Thursday morning, in a visit that was officially about diplomacy but in reality was about cleaning up after President Donald Trump’s latest swipes at the first American pope.
MILAN (RNS) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio traveled to Rome in what observers viewed as an effort to cool rhetoric and preserve a crucial relationship between Washington and the Holy See.
Rubio met with Pope Leo on Thursday and emphasized their “shared commitment to promoting peace” amid an ongoing feud between the pontiff and President Trump.
The U.S. State Department said that the meetings with Leo and the Vatican’s top diplomat covered peace in the Middle East and “underscored the strong relationship between the United States and the Holy See.”
The visit by the US secretary of state to the Vatican comes as President Donald Trump continues to disparage the Catholic leader over criticism of the Iran war.
Pope Leo XIV was mistaken for a prank caller after trying to update his bank account information following his move to the Vatican, the New York Times reports
Secretary of State Marco Rubio kicked off a two-day visit to Vatican City and Italy Thursday by meeting Pope Leo XIV, days after President Trump claimed the first American-born pontiff was “e…
Relations between the United States and the Vatican are at a low point over President Trump’s attacks on Pope Leo, who is a leading critic of the war in Iran.