VATICAN CITY -- In his very first sermon as pontiff, Pope Leo XIV told the cardinals who elected him that anyone who ...

At the end of the Gospel according to St Matthew, Christ reminds his followers that, in the end, we will be judged on how we treated those who are most in need. He urged people to give food to the ...

Pope Leo XIV will head to the lakeside town of Castel Gandolfo for his summer vacation. After 12 years of papal absence, ...

The Vatican says leaked documents that seemingly undermined Pope Francis’ stated reason for restricting the old Latin Mass ...

For 400 years, most popes escaped the Roman summer in the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Then Francis stopped going, ...

Pope Leo will revive a centuries-old tradition on Sunday by taking a holiday at Castel Gandolfo, where residents of the lakeside town hope for a tourism boost after the late Pope Francis shunned ...

Pope Leo XIV’s hometown is poised to acquire his childhood home. Board members in suburban Dolton outside Chicago voted ...

ROME -- Cardinal Luis Pascual Dri, the Argentine priest whom Pope Francis held up as the model confessor, has died in Buenos ...

If Jesus trusts us, then we too can trust one another, in his name,” Pope Leo XIV said, extending his call to unity to all ...

COMMENTARY: Thus, it was hard for me to pick up what would be Pope Francis’ last encyclical and read it with receptivity. But ...

“Francis masterfully and concretely set it forth,” Leo said, referring to the document, called “Evangelii Gaudium.” The new pope also explained the choice of his name.

Pope Francis in 2023, officiating at part of the process of elevating Robert Francis Prevost, now Leo XIV, to cardinal. Riccardo De Luca/Associated Press ...