This means Leo believes a united church faithful to Jesus Christ is essential to the mission of the church in proclaiming the ...

During his weekly General Audience, Pope Leo XIV reminds the faithful that God waits for us with open arms, no matter how ...

Meeting his former colleagues and co-workers and acknowledging how many of them spent many more years working at the Vatican ...

new video loaded: New Pope Declares Church Should Receive Everyone With ‘Open Arms’ transcript “I never thought in my lifetime we would see an American Pope. This is so exciting for my ...

In his first speech from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica on May 8, Leo said the cardinals chose him “to be the successor ...

Tennis Italian Open: Sinner Greets Pope XIV At The Vatican Pope Leo XIV has made peace with Jannik Sinner. The top-ranked tennis player visited the new pope on Wednesday, gave him a tennis racket ...

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

The Holy See’s official website Vatican.va has a new, modern design, presenting papal teaching to the world in a more ...

The election of a first North American pontiff came after the death of the first Latin American pope and signaled a relinquishing of papal authority from Europe.

The Vatican ... Pope Francis had departed from this convention, signing simply as “Franciscus.” This return to traditional elements accompanies Leo’s papal coat of arms.

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out on Thursday, signaling that a new pope—the 267th leader of the Catholic Church—had been ...

Robert Prevost, a native of Chicago, is a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s office of bishops.