Vice President JD Vance was expected to be among the dignitaries attending the Mass in St. Peter’s Square. It marks the start ...

The papacy is a global platform, so the issues Pope Leo chooses to focus on can resonate far beyond the church.

A new pope will be selected to lead the Catholic Church following the death of Pope Francis. The pope is chosen during a ...

Bishops often imposed such restrictions — with varying levels of enforcement and typically without warning the public — until ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago has been elected pope, becoming the first American to lead the Roman Catholic ...

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

Pope Leo XIV has echoed his predecessor’s urgent call for an end to the assault that has killed more than 52,000 Palestinians ...

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa is a Vatican outsider, but his experience in a region sacred to three major religions may ...

In that job he would have kept in regular contact with the Catholic hierarchy in the part of the world that counts still counts the most Catholics.Ever since he arrived in Rome, Leo has kept a low ...