The faithful in Los Angeles, America’s most Catholic city, were delighted — and a little stunned — Thursday to learn a Chicago-born priest with deep roots in Peru had been elected to lead the world’s ...

Pope Francis used his Christmas message on Monday to call for a negotiated two-state solution to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, after U.S. President Donald Trump stoked regional tensions with ...

Pope Leo XIV joins environmental experts and campaigners from around the world for a climate conference near Rome Wednesday ...

The Vatican selected the first American pope on May 8 with many United States politicians extending congratulations. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost ascended to the papacy and chose the title of Pope ...

Pope Leo XIV finishing a document started by Pope Francis touches on this. On the love of the poor. The document strongly ...

A Venezuelan man lies in bed with his daughters in Aurora, Colo., on Jan. 30, 2025. Despite having legal documentation to reside in the United States, they fear reports that U.S. Immigration and ...

A top American cardinal celebrated a traditional Latin Mass on Saturday in St. Peter's Basilica with the explicit permission ...

Pope Leo XIV urged Catholic teachers on Tuesday to focus less on pre-professional outcomes and more on educating students to ...

Pope Leo XIV waves from his popemobile at the end of a Mass for the Jubilee of Migrants and Missionaries in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) ...

Pope Leo XIV will pray at the site of the 2020 port blast in Beirut that killed over 200 people during his first foreign ...