At St. Mary of the Assumption school in Chicago’s southern suburbs, Robert Prevost was quiet, kind and studious. Mostly, he ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Monday called for the release of imprisoned journalists and affirmed the “precious gift ...

Conservatives and traditionalist Catholics are cautiously optimistic over the historic election of Pope Leo XIV, hopeful that ...

Pope Leo XIV is the first Pope from the Order of St. Augustine, which suggests he will promote peace and dialogue.

Pope Leo XIV’s first signals about the style and substance of his pontificate show why he won such broad assent at the ...

Pope Francis broke with an old tradition and did not live in the Apostolic Palace like his predecessors, but in the Santa ...

While Pope Leo XIV presides over a flock of 1.4 billion people from within Vatican City, there’s one worldly responsibility he may not escape: Uncle Sam.

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

In one of his first speeches, Pope Leo XIV — an American née Robert Francis Prevost who succeeds Pope Francis — spoke out in ...

The pontiff held his first meeting with the news media at the Vatican and called on reporters to choose “the path of ...

Chicagoans celebrated the historic election of Pope Leo XIV, the first pope from the U.S. and a Chicago native, with joy and ...

Pope Leo XIV asked journalists to be peacemakers by shunning prejudice and anger in their reporting, and he called for the ...