I met the man who would become Pope Leo XIV in October 2023. We were standing outside the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and from my ...

The new pope said he would be guided by a key document that his predecessor wrote listing the church’s priorities, including ...

After a series of closures by the Chicago Archdiocese, Christ Our Savior Church in South Holland has bragging rights as Pope ...

Pope Leo XIV is now the most powerful American Catholic in the world, and experts say he must aptly walk the line between U.S ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S.

The first American pope arrives at a time of extraordinary complexity and tension in the church in the United States.

Priests are required to report child abuse or neglect to Washington state law enforcement after learning about the crime ...

Live updates and latest news as the first North American pope steps into his role as the new leader of the Catholic Church.

The Catholic Church has issued a warning to its clergy in Washington state: Any priest who complies with a new law requiring ...

At this moment of change and possibility, four principles that Francis lived, and that Leo XIV has begun to echo, must guide ...

Pope Francis did not act as a steward of that faith, but as an improviser. Under his pontificate, clarity was displaced by ...

Pope Leo XIV gave a homily at a Mass a day after he was chosen to lead the Catholic Church. Here's what the new pontiff said, ...