Peruvians have celebrated the election of a man many knew as a missionary and bishop during his two decades of service in the ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — When Cardinal Robert Prevost emerged from the loggia of St. Peter’s as Pope Leo XIV on Thursday (May 8), ...

Pope Leo XIV held his first public audience with members of the media, saying the church stood in solidarity with them for "seeking the truth." ...

Vice President J.D. Vance has called the Catholic Church “so much bigger than politics” as he expressed disappointment about ...

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

Pope Leo XIV called for a genuine and just peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, in his first Sunday noon ...

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...