While Pope Leo XIV presides over a flock of 1.4 billion people from within Vatican City, there’s one worldly responsibility he may not escape: Uncle Sam.

Some conservatives and traditionalist Catholics are cautiously optimistic over the historic election of Pope Leo XIV. They're ...

The papacy is a global platform, so the issues Pope Leo chooses to focus on can resonate far beyond the church.

The pontiff held his first meeting with the news media at the Vatican and called on reporters to choose “the path of ...

For the first time in the history of these two preeminent institutions, their chosen leaders share the same nationality.

Pope Leo XIV begins his first full week as leader of the world's Catholics on Monday, with journalists, diplomats and top ...

Pope Leo XIV called for a genuine and just peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, in his first Sunday noon ...

Pope Leo XIV called Monday for the release of jailed journalists and urged reporters against using words that fan hatred, as ...

Pope Leo XIV on Monday called for the release of imprisoned journalists and affirmed the “precious gift of free speech and ...

The pope's inauguration mass at St Peter's Square on Sunday, May 18 will be a far grander affair -- his first public mass as ...

Following in the footsteps of his predecessors, Leo, the first American pope, is expected to deliver remarks to members of ...

Chicagoans celebrated the historic election of Pope Leo XIV, the first pope from the U.S. and a Chicago native, with joy and ...