Madonna has called on Pope Leo to travel to Gaza amid the ongoing humanitarian crisis, asking him to "bring your light to the ...

When he took the papal name Leo XIV, it was widely suggested by Vatican commentators that the former Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was sending a message.

One new American archbishop says having a pope from Chicago is something to think about, since “Catholicism in Chicago has ...

Pope Leo XIV is enjoying a busy weekend with the Jubilee of Youth as the Catholic Church celebrates its Jubilee year. "For me ...

Pope Leo XIV confirmed those conjectures when he first spoke to the College of Cardinals in Rome on May 10 -- two days after his election -- revealing that he chose his new name "mainly because Pope ...

After a two-day conclave, the cardinal electors chose Robert Francis Prevost to lead the church on May 8, when he took on the name Pope Leo XIV and became the first American to be named pope. Leo has ...

Castel Gandolfo is also home to one of the Holy See’s more unexpected institutions: the Vatican Observatory, which since its ...

The press conference, with its serious translation errors, indicated the difficulties Ana María Quispe Díaz has faced as her ...

A Vatican opinion released shortly before Pope Francis died advises against public church listings of clergy members deemed ...

The quietly spoken Leo has now succeeded Francis, one of the most disruptive popes in modern times. One of his biggest ...

Pope Leo XIV, the American-born pontiff who spent most of his ministry in Peru before rising to the Vatican, is the most ...

Matthew Bunson's Portrait of the First American Pope: Leo XIV and Christopher White's Pope Leo XIV: Inside the Conclave, Dawn ...