Pope Leo XIV greeted on Sunday the Augustinian community from his former Peruvian Diocese of Chiclayo, who had arrived in ...

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

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

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

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

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

Archbishop Ryan P. Jimenez of Guam carried messages from the Pacific Islands—from climate change and emigration to the Neocatechumenal Way and lack of theology professors—in his first private audience ...

Leo will disappear further this weekend when he begins a six-week vacation in his first break since his historic election May 8. Leo is resuming the papal tradition of escaping the Roman heat for the ...

Catholic organizations had lobbied Pat Quinn to end the death penalty. The former governor was not previously aware of Prevost’s message to him.

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