Where Christians are "mocked, opposed, despised or at best tolerated and pitied" is where the church's "missionary outreach ...

As the Trump administration dismantles climate action and cuts funding to Indigenous peoples around the world — and far-right ...

While in Rome for the tournament May 14, the world’s highest-ranked tennis player walked into the halls of the Vatican and ...

Pope Leo XIV, born in Chicago as Robert Francis Prevost, is Black. He is a descendant of Creoles in New Orleans, including ...

I was coming from the gym around 9:30 a.m. I looked at my phone and my nephew had texted me notifying me that white smoke was ...

The new pontiff spoke to NBC News anchor Lester Holt, who was part of a news conference for some 6,000 journalists from ...

When broken down by race and ethnicity, Catholicism is growing the fastest among Hispanics in the U.S. According to data from Pew Research Center, 29% of all Catholics in the U.S. were Hispanic in ...

"War is never inevitable," the pope told them. "Weapons can and must be silenced, for they do not resolve problems but only ...

Pope Leo XIV was gifted a tennis racket by world number one player Jannick Sinner on Wednesday. Sinner offered to volley with ...

Prior to his elevation to the papacy, Leo XIV stayed out of the spotlight on certain reforms backed by his predecessor but ...

Despite losing 1,200 churches, America has gained 2.9 million Catholics since 2010, according to an NBC News analysis of data from the U.S. Religion Census.