All four of Pope Leo XIV’s maternal great-grandparents were “free people of color” in Louisiana ... “It was special for me ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Leo XIV formally began his reign on Sunday by reaching out to conservatives who felt orphaned ...

The pope's Creole roots in New Orleans are a source of pride among the city's Black Catholics. But the revelation also ...

Pope Leo XIV commenced his papacy by emphasizing unity and preserving the Catholic Church's heritage. During his inauguration ...

When [Pope Leo] came to the balcony, I looked up, and I was like, ‘That dude looks like he could be my brother,” a New ...

The Vatican said some 200,000 people attended the Mass at St. Peter’s Square, which marked the start of the pontificate of ...

I would suspect that people are very proud that Chicago produced a pope, and it testifies to the fact that there’s a lot of ...

Pope Leo XIV has met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after his inaugural Mass in the Vatican, where he delivered a ...

At his installation Mass, the pope said, "in this our time, we still see too much discord, too many wounds caused by hatred, ...

Pope Leo XIV began his papacy by reaching out to conservative Catholics, emphasizing unity and continuity of the church's ...

For many centuries we have seen the custom of a new pope changing his name. It signals the kind of papacy he envisions as he assumes the mantle.

Pope Leo XIV’s American and Peruvian experience offers a compelling moral and economic lens through which to examine the ...