Pope Leo XIV met with thousands of journalists in Rome on Monday, thanking them in Italian for their work covering the papal election.

The former neighbors of the newly elected pontiff describe him as an intelligent person ‘with a sense of humor and great ...

Criminal justice reform has long been one of the most divisive issues between Democrats who control the Illinois General Assembly and the Republican minority.

Pope Leo was born in the United States, but for his adopted nation of Peru, he is a “Chiclayano” – a son of the bustling ...

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

Almost a decade ago, award-winning film director Paolo Sorrentino launched his first series, with Jude Law playing the first pope from the US. Is reality now catching up with fiction?

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

At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an unknown to many outside of the church.

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago and one of the 10 U.S. cardinal electors at the conclave that elected the ...

Leo urged an end to the ongoing wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. "I carry in my heart the suffering of the beloved ...

“Robert Prevost was a missionary bishop who gave himself fully to his people and who played an important role in the church of his new country, Peru. In fact, he became a Peruvian citizen,” Canadian ...