It has been nearly a month since Pope Leo XIV was elected head of the Catholic Church, and he has already been leaving an ...

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV, as the first U.S.-born pope, may bring unique insight to the problem of polarization in ...

Several options are available to the Holy Father, who has pledged to heal divisions and build bridges within the Church.

Pope Leo XIV has no illusions about power. He did not seek high office. His heart was shaped by those he served: by farmers, ...

In the Holy Father’s message he said the Church needs to be farsighted in discerning the needs of parents and children often ...

Pope Leo XIV vowed Sunday to work for unity in a polarized Catholic Church and world, as history’s first American pope offered a message of healing during ...

Pope Leo XIV in his speech Monday called Blessed Iuliu Hossu “a symbol of fraternity transcending all ethnic and religious ...

In his first prayer intention video of his papacy, Pope Leo XIV has asked the faithful to pray that the world might grow in compassion during the month of June.

Pope Leo XIV recalled the life and legacy of Cardinal in pectore Iuliu Hossu, a Romanian Greek-Catholic bishop, “pastor and ...

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out on Thursday, signaling that a new pope—the 267th leader of the Catholic Church—had been ...

Pope Leo XIV is now the most powerful American Catholic in the world ... cardinals shared their reaction to the new leader of the church.

ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe of Catholics, riven by political divisions that have thwarted the will of ...