ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV prayed Wednesday for the world to recognize the urgency of the climate crisis and “hear the cry of the poor,” as he celebrated the first papal Mass using a new set of prayers ...

Meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Pope Leo XIV reiterated his willingness to host representatives of ...

For 400 years, most popes escaped the Roman summer in the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Then Francis stopped going, ...

Pope Leo will continue to deliver his weekly Angelus addresses from Liberty Square (Piazza della Libertà) in front of the ...

Almost four years after Pope Francis opened the Catholic Church's path toward synodality -- a term many in the church had ...

In a unanimous vote at a special board meeting held July 1, the village council of Dolton, Ill., voted to purchase the ...

An Illinois village has voted to purchase the childhood home of the first American pope, with a trustee saying the ...

Pope Leo grew up in a small brick house in the Chicago suburb of Dolton which is now up for auction. The village’s board of ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Catholic priests will now be able to celebrate Mass “for the care of creation” after the Vatican ...

A young Catholic made the pope's day after the leader of the Church signed a card of a Pokémon sharing nearly the same name ...

A view of the Papal or Apostolic Palace, a historic summer retreat for popes in the lakeside town of Castel Gandolfo, about ...