Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first American to lead the Catholic Church elevated him to the rare position of being a U.S.

Leo on Sunday made his first public remarks about one of the thorniest foreign policy issues facing his new pontificate.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said his administration is committed to building bridges across belief, race, and continent-for peace, for progress, and for all of humanity.In a post on his X handle ...

ROME — Pope Leo XIV asked Sunday for prayers for China’s Catholics to be in communion with the Holy See, as he made his first ...

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The Catholic Church has always been central to Creole identity. The Prevosts aren’t the only ones who passed into white ...

The way the news of the new pope’s heritage was made public speaks to the complexity of discussions of race in the U.S.

Pope Leo XIV's religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio, the blockbuster artist who revolutionized the use of light and darkness in Western art.

As Pope Leo settles into the job, he signals what's ahead for the new papacy, taking action on the vision he sketched out in ...

Leo XIV felt a calling to the priesthood from ... up since 7 a.m. doing interviews since his brother was chosen as the new pope, nearly losing his voice through the 40-50 interviews he’s done ...

Tens of thousands came to St. Peter’s Square to mark the official start of the pontificate of the first American to lead the ...

Presiding over a Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Leo was inaugurated as the first American pope, in a ceremony filled ...