For years before becoming Pope Leo XIV — as a parish priest and then bishop in Peru — Robert Prevost built ties with interfaith environmental networks and Indigenous organizations to place forest ...

Brazilian Cardinal Leonardo Steiner told America that Pope Leo would carry forward Pope Francis' legacy of synodality in the ...

An invitation has already been extended to Pope Leo XIV to attend this year’s COP30 U.N. climate conference in Brazil.

Pope Francis, who died at 88 last month, was the first pontiff to be publicly inclusive of the LGBTQ Catholic community.

(NewsNation) — Cardinals have selected the 267th leader of the Catholic Church. The naming of a new pope ... conclave were appointed by the late Pope Francis, who died the day after making ...

Choosing the new pope requires not just a majority, but a two-thirds plus-one vote by the cardinal electors for a single candidate to win. Pope Benedict XVI, who led the church prior to Francis ...

Cardinals chose a new pope to ... in Germany. Pope Francis died last month aged 88 after a 12-year papacy during which he sought to forge a more compassionate Church -- but drew anger from many ...

In his final Easter message, Pope Francis expressed pain over the violence and division throughout our world and urged us to rekindle hopes for peace. He held war-torn communities in his heart — not ...

Medina said Francis sought to bring youth closer to the church, and his successor should be, even more so, “the pope of the young.” “I expect the same from the new pope: that he calls young ...