Many young people are sick with anxiety, Pope Leo XIV told students of Europe’s largest university on Thursday, saying there “are difficult seasons for everyone.”

Pope Leo XIV denounced how investments in artificial intelligence and high-tech weaponry were leading the world into a “spiral of annihilation,” as he called for peace in the Middle East and Ukraine...

The Vatican on Wednesday issued a final warning to a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics that their planned consecrations of bishops without papal consent constitutes a schismatic act that...