But Pope Leo XIV’s birth city or heritage aren’t paramount to him. “It doesn’t matter, to me, where he’s from. Nationality doesn’t matter,” he added.

Pope Leo XIV met with Vice President JD Vance for a closed-door meeting at the Vatican on Monday morning, the first private conversation between America’s two most high-profile Catholics since ...

Pope Leo XIV makes first papal trip outside the Vatican 03:29. The first official portrait of Pope Leo XIV was released on Friday.. Vatican News shared the portrait on Facebook, and in just three ...

Online genealogists found that Pope Leo’s paternal grandparents in Chicago were accused of having an “illicit affair” in the 1910s, adding another layer to the pope’s complex family history.

Actor Jack McQuaid, who appeared in the Paolo Sorrentino show "The Young Pope" starring Jude Law, weighs in on how art imitates life with the election of Pope Leo XIV.

While Pope Francis led the call for respecting human dignity in the face of AI, it's worth looking a little deeper into the historical inspiration for Leo XIV's name choice.

The Religious Order That Molded the Pope: The Order of St. Augustine, with fewer than 3,000 members, shaped the man who would become a cardinal, and then pope to the world’s Roman Catholics.

Pope Leo XIV once said: "To all who sent prayers, love, and hope as I begin this sacred journey — thank you. I accept this role not as a throne, but as a vow: To serve the forgotten, To uplift ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV delivered a vivid defense of a free press and “truth” on Monday in his first encounter with journalists as pontiff, paying homage to fallen war correspondents and ...

The Issue: The election of American Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as the next pope of the Catholic Church. We now have an American pope in Robert Francis Prevost (“Chicago pope,” May 9 ...

The Religious Order That Molded the Pope: The Order of St. Augustine, with fewer than 3,000 members, shaped the man who would become a cardinal, and then pope to the world’s Roman Catholics.

Laura Loomer, center, a far-right activist who holds significant sway with President Trump, described Pope Leo XIV as “anti-Trump, anti-MAGA, pro-open Borders, and a total Marxist” in a social ...