The pontiff offers something rare: a pastor-leader urging the church to reclaim the dignity of every person — not as an ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected pope and chose the name Leo XIV. A Chicago native, Prevost is the first American to head the Roman Catholic Church. Prevost was elected by Catholic ...

Pope Leo XIV's childhood home just outside of Chicago has been declared a historic landmark. The board of trustees of the ...

Benches created by District 205 students and teachers depicting Pope Leo XIV are inside Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home in ...

Pope Leo XIV has revealed his immediate, heartfelt reaction upon being elected leader of the 1.4 billion-member Catholic ...

Lebanon needed this embrace.” The words went out over a social media platform, made more poignant for the accompanying image ...

His voice reveals, above all, the gratitude he feels toward his friend, Pope Leo XIV. From this friendship, forged over more than three decades, comes the Spanish-language book From Robert to Leo, ...

For the world's 1.4 billion Catholics and for millions of other people as well, the Catholic Church's 2025 was primarily ...

The American pontiff has rebuked the White House over its treatment of immigrants and the potential invasion of Venezuela.

Pope Leo XIV has shared his thoughts during the conclave that elected him, saying he resigned himself to the inevitable and ...

During his first international trip to Turkey and Lebanon, Pope Leo XIV stepped onto the international stage and into the ...