On the eve of Pentecost, Pope Leo XIV prayed that the Holy Spirit would help Catholic lay associations, movements and ...

The pontiff addressed a massive crowd, estimated by the Vatican at around 70,000, in St. Peter's Square on June 7 during a ...

One of the greatest challenges facing Pope Leo XIV is financial. He has inherited the Holy See’s chronic, 50 million to 60 ...

The Vatican doesn’t tax its residents or issue bonds, and it's got a very big budget problem. It primarily finances the ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Americans in St. Peter’s Square were stunned and joyous when they learned that an American cardinal, Robert Provost, was elected pope Thursday and had taken the name Leo XIV.

But soon the crowd in St. Peter's Square fell to a hush, as the world waited for the next piece of careful choreography: a Latin pronouncement with the name of the cardinal who had just been ...

DETROW: NPR's Ruth Sherlock was in the crowd at St. Peter's Square when it happened. Ruth, what was it like? RUTH SHERLOCK, BYLINE: Hi. Yeah, well, if there's one thing the Catholic Church does ...

COMMENTARY: Not since 1808, when Bishop John Carroll was elevated to serve the see of Baltimore, has the Catholic Church in ...

"God wants to give his kingdom, that is, full, eternal and happy life, to everyone," the pope said June 4 as he held his ...

Families are the cradle of the future of humanity, Pope Leo XIV said during a Mass concluding the Jubilee of Families, ...

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