Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff, in his first month as the 267th leader of the Catholic Church, has taken a markedly ...

As tensions between Russia and Ukraine continue to escalate despite international efforts to broker a ceasefire, Pope Leo XIV ...

Pope Leo and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke together by phone today, June 4, for the first time, the Kremlin said.

Many Catholics around the world were stunned when Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, an American, was elected pope. When his ...

“The failure of the Istanbul summit cannot and must not mark the end of efforts to stop the war,” he said. “The Holy See, ...

We're still at the Rorschach test stage of the papacy, in which people can project almost anything they want to see amid the ...

Whatever challenges, problems and woes south suburbanites were wrestling with prior to May 8, we all had reason to be ...

As white smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel chimney at 6:08 p.m. May 8 in Vatican City, University of Iowa Catholic Studies ...

A Pinehurst mother and her son rented an Airbnb that was a 12-minute walk from the Vatican and attended Pope Leo's first ...

ShareFresh from the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV in Rome recently, the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, was ...

In Saint Peter’s Square, visitors from around the globe expressed optimism the new American pope will prove to be a positive ...