After a two-day conclave, the cardinal electors chose Robert Francis Prevost to lead the church on May 8, when he took on the name Pope Leo XIV and became the first American to be named pope. Leo has ...

Despite criticism from popes, bishops and attorneys general, the tech industry nearly got a moratorium on AI rules into law.

Pope Leo XIV has addressed the opportunities and challenges of AI often, leading many to think he will write in an encyclical ...

Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday received a rock star’s welcome at the Vatican’s festival of Catholic influencers as he urged them to ...

Pope Leo XIV encouraged the participants of the Medjugorje youth festival to unite the flames of their hearts so that this ...

One new American archbishop says having a pope from Chicago is something to think about, since “Catholicism in Chicago has ...

Shaped entirely by the Second Vatican Council, Pope Paul VI dedicated his pontificate to beginning the implementation of the ...

Pope Leo XIV confirmed those conjectures when he first spoke to the College of Cardinals in Rome on May 10 -- two days after ...

A survivor of clergy sex abuse in Peru brought her public campaign for reform to the American hometown of Pope Leo XIV.

A moderate who was close to Pope Francis and spent years as a missionary in Peru, he becomes the Catholic Church's 267th pontiff, taking the papal name Leo XIV.

Pope Leo XIV has extended his vacation at Castel Gandolfo by two days. How does he relax? And what have other popes done with their downtime?