Francis’ papacy honored Latin American Catholics killed for their social justice work, a theologian explains – and Leo may ...

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

ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe of Catholics, riven by political divisions that have thwarted the will of ...

Robert Francis Prevost has addressed the world for the first time as Pope Leo XIV, sharing a message of peace and paying tribute to the late Pope Francis ...

The church's concern about global warming cannot die with Pope Francis. The ball has been passed to Pope Leo XIV ...

Pope Leo XIV has met with members of the Vatican's child protection advisory commission for the first time amid questions ...

Leo, already established as a polyglot fluent in Italian, should not hesitate to use English and increasingly make it the ...

Pope Leo XIV's election marks a historic moment: the first pope from an English-speaking country, and the first from the United States. Even more significant than these "firsts," I believe, is a ...

Every pope brings a distinct vision and agenda for leading the church. Making change is difficult in the Catholic Church, but ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States has been elected the 267th pope and has stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as the new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics.

It was a truly hectic Sunday, May 25, for the American-born pope, as he visited the two major basilicas: St. John Lateran and ...