Pope Leo XIV met Thursday with members of the Vatican’s child protection advisory panel for the first time amid questions ...

Pope Leo XIV Thursday met with members of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors to get an update about their ...

However, "Let this place not be clouded by ambition or rivalry; instead, let it be a true community of faith and charity, of ...

In a church and a world divided and fractured, priests are called to be witnesses of God's love and forgiveness, which ...

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out on Thursday, signaling that a new pope—the 267th leader of the Catholic Church—had been ...

ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe of Catholics, riven by political divisions that have thwarted the will of ...

American-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was introduced to the world on Thursday from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica as Pope Leo XIV, becoming the 267th leader of the Roman Catholic Church — ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump quickly reacted to the appointment of the first American pope on Thursday, May 8. Pope Leo XIV, formerly known as Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago, won the secretive conc ...

Update: American Cardinal Robert Prevost has been chosen as the new pope and took the name Leo XIV — the first pope in history from the United States. Pope Francis' death on April 21, the day ...

Pope Francis had long urged the Catholic Church to “go to the peripheries,” meaning communities in Africa and Asia, where the church also is the most vibrant. One persistent question has been ...