Pope Leo XIV asked Sunday for prayers for China’s Catholics to be in communion with the Holy See, as he made his first public ...

Pope Leo XIV made plenty of enemies helping dismantle a powerful Catholic movement whose leaders physically, sexually, ...

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, vowed Sunday to work for unity so that the Catholic Church becomes a symbol of ...

Tens of thousands came to St. Peter’s Square to mark the official start of the pontificate of the first American to lead the ...

Pope Leo XIV's election as the first American to lead the Catholic Church elevated him to the rare position of being a U.S.

ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo ... himself a Catholic convert. That could set up near-immediate conflict. The question, some U.S. church-watchers said, is what issues Leo will prioritize ...