Bishop Emanuel Shaleta pleaded not guilty to stealing at least $270,000 from the St. Peter Chaldean Catholic Cathedral in El Cajon, Calif.

Pope Leo XIV says a Chaldean Catholic bishop has resigned after he was arrested while trying to leave the U.S. following accusations that he embezzled $270,000 from his parish near San Diego.

The San Diego County Sheriff’s Office said last week it had arrested Bishop Emmanuel Shaleta on March 5 at San Diego International Airport as he tried to leave the country.

The Vatican has released the schedule for Pope Leo XIV’s day trip to Monaco, the first papal visit to the Catholic principality in the modern era.

The Dominican convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan is best known as the home of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper.” ...

Pope Leo XIV leads the Angelus prayer from the window of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican March 8, 2026. Speaking to pilgrims after praying the Angelus, the pope called for an ...

Pope Leo XIV on Saturday named a veteran Vatican diplomat as his new ambassador to the United States to manage one of the ...

Caccia, the Holy See's observer at the United Nations since 2019, replaces Cardinal Christophe Pierre as papal nuncio.

Pope Leo XIV has already restored several customs from recent pontificates that Francis had set aside. The Pallium Mass for new archbishops on the Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul returned last June, ...

The "Pope Leo" difference made itself felt anew over Christmas. As we have seen before, Leo XIV's words were little different from what his predecessors would say. In his midnight Mass homily, the ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV on Thursday used his first Christmas message as pontiff to call for “peace and consolation for the victims of all current wars in the world” as well as for those suffering ...