An American bishop-elect has resigned just weeks before he was due to start the job, following an allegation that he had sexually abused a minor, Catholic Church officials said on Monday.

A powerful Vatican cardinal caught up in a real estate scandal resigned suddenly on Thursday and gave up his right to take part in an eventual conclave to elect a pope, in one of the most mysterious ...

Pope Leo XIV urged people Wednesday not to resign themselves to the global crisis of climate change but play an active part ...

(RNS) — Those who hoped that Pope Leo XIV would back away from Pope Francis’ concerns about global warming and the ...

The Pope's remarks, at a speech in Castel Gondolfo near Rome, will be seen as an implied criticism of US President Donald ...

"We are one family, with one Father," Pope Leo said, and "we inhabit the same planet and must care for it together." ...

Pope Leo XIV receives the participants of the International Conference "Refugees and Migrants in Our Common Home" currently ...

Here's what's true — and what's false — about rumors that Leo is replacing New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who called Kirk a ...

The pope spoke Oct. 1 at the start of a conference marking the 10-year anniversary of Laudato Si', Pope Francis' landmark ...