A new book suggests Chicago-born Richard Prevost may have been reluctant at first to take on the weighty responsibility of ...

This is a time of change for Latino Catholics, currently about 40 percent of the U.S. Church, and who experts say are likely ...

Ninety miles north of Chiclayo, where Pope Leo XIV served for more than 20 years, a group of students from Bishop O'Connell ...

Leo XIV is expected to visit Nicaea — located in modern-day İznik in northwestern Turkey — to celebrate the 1,700th ...

But beyond the celeb connections, Gates’ research uncovered something far more powerful: Pope Leo XIV is of mixed Black and ...

I have, after 80 years, felt something that I never thought I would in this century as a Roman Catholic. I feel optimistic. I ...

Pope Leo XIV is starting a six-week vacation this weekend at the papal summer retreat south of Rome. It's his first break ...

From priest to pope—will his missionary past define him as the leader of 1.4 billion Catholics, or will Pope Leo become ...

As Pope Leo XIV arrives in Castel Gandolfo for his summer break, it is unlikely to be a real vacation for the new pontiff.