Lights, camera, action, pope? About three dozen Hollywood stars will meet Pope Leo this weekend, including actors Cate ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV has begun correcting some of Pope Francis’ more questionable financial reforms and decisions, canceling a law Monday that had concentrated financial power in the Vatican ...

The pope invoked his predecessor, Francis, for whom the environment was a core issue, but stopped short of criticizing world leaders dismissive of climate change. By Motoko Rich Reporting from Castel ...

Pope Leo XIV has written a warm and detailed letter to Cardinal Raymond Burke, thanking the American cardinal for 50 years of priestly ministry, in a gesture that marks a shift in tone following years ...

Pope Leo XIV brought his White Sox fandom to the Vatican on Wednesday. While holding a general audience in St. Peter’s Square, the Chicago-bred pontiff was photographed wearing a black White Sox cap ...

How did the new pope win over his colleagues and what does he bring to the role from his upbringing in Chicago and his work in Peru? Were you to have asked Pope Francis to name his favorite book, he ...

When Pope Francis died, the morning after Easter, prominent right-wing Catholics leapt at the chance to lobby for a more conservative, even Trumpian, leader of the Church. Far-right pundit Jack ...

Then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio washes the feet of residents of a shelter for drug users during Holy Thursday Mass in 2008 at a church in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (CNS photo/Enrique Garcia Medina, ...

On a sweltering January day in 2018, Pope Francis addressed 100,000 of the faithful in Puerto Maldonado, Peru, not far from where gold mining had ravaged an expanse of Amazon rainforest about the size ...

Prayers for a speedy conclave were answered when, on May 8, white smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney to signal the election of a new pope. Robert Francis Prevost, who will now be known as ...

Pope Leo XIV was welcomed as the newest pontiff by a sea of faithful and an uninterrupted view of St. Peter’s Square on Thursday. Conversely, Pope Leo, born Robert Francis Prevost, introduced himself ...