Pope Leo XIV will meet more than 6,000 journalists and media workers on Monday (May 12) in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, ...

“Robert Prevost was a missionary bishop who gave himself fully to his people and who played an important role in the church of his new country, Peru. In fact, he became a Peruvian citizen,” Canadian ...

Then he did something notably uncharacteristic of Pope Francis. He sang. “Hallelujah,” he intoned reverently, in Latin. The ...

The revelation that Leo XIV has roots among New Orleans Creoles has stirred curiosity and joy about the first pope from the ...

Pope Leo XIV has called for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza with the release of ...

Pope Leo XIV has called for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza with the release of ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

In Peru, Pope Leo XIV is known as the saintly missionary who waded through mud after torrential rains flooded the region, ...

Like Francis, Leo shares a commitment to the poor and disadvantaged, and a focus on Catholics in far-flung areas away from ...

Leo offered a novelty by singing the Regina Coeli, a Latin prayer said during the Easter season which recent popes usually ...

The new Pope, formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost, from Chicago, became the first North American head of the Catholic Church.

The Catholic Church has entered a new historic era with the election of American-Peruvian Robert Francis Prevost as the 267th ...