After waiting in line at the Vatican, Jason Perash of Colorado got the pontiff to autograph a ball. The pope is reportedly a Chicago White Sox fan.

Pope Leo XIV joked and applauded journalists during an audience with media representatives. The meeting took place on Monday in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. Leo XIV emphasized the ...

Most of the journalists stood when the 267th pope — who was born in Chicago and raised in Dolton — entered the great room of the Paul VI Audience Hall adjacent to St. Peter’s Basilica.

Four days after his momentous election, Pope Leo XIV yesterday met about 4,000 reporters, cameramen and technicians from the ...

Pope Leo XIV meets with members of the international media in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican ... brought smiles and looks of shock to an audience unaccustomed to a Midwesterner leading St ...

Describing the Curia as the institution that preserves “the historical memory of the church,” Pope Leo called on these ...

Pope Leo XIV sent a message to the United States on Monday after addressing the crowds in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican City over the weekend.

Pope Leo XIV expressed solidarity with imprisoned journalists and affirmed the "precious gift of free speech and the press" on Monday during his first press conference as leader of the world's ...

Pope Leo XIV has called for the release of imprisoned journalists in his first address to members of the media at the Vatican. He expressed solidarity with journalists who were jailed "for seeking and ...

This is the text of the catechesis and appeal from Pope Leo XIV's first general audience, given May 21, in the Paul VI Hall.

Three weeks after his election, Pope Leo XIV met for the first time with Vatican and Roman Curia employees—an audience of ...