Catholics, Leo suggests, should neither attempt to dominate the political sphere nor separate themselves from it.

Leo XIV’s first apostolic exhortation focuses on loving the poor. Conservative American Catholics are sure to lose their ...

In taking the name Leo XIV, the first American pope signaled a desire to imitate his much-beloved 19th-century predecessor ...

During his 27-year pontificate, Pope John Paul II canonised so many people that some dubbed the Vatican "the saint factory".

Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his ...

ROME – Channeling his inner Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Leo met a “Working Group on Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue” yesterday sponsored by the European Parliament and extolled what he called ...

The choice signals that Pope Leo XIV aims to press for peace in the Middle East and show support for Christians in the region ...

VATICAN CITY -- VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV will travel to Turkey and Lebanon next month on the first foreign trip of ...

In Pope Leo's exhortation "Dilexi Te,' we hear the voice of a patient teacher reminding us of an inescapable truth at the ...

His predecessor, Pope Francis, had planned the pilgrimage to the two majority-Muslim countries before he died.