As much as Leo he has echoed Francis, the first American pope is fast emerging as his own man. VATICAN CITY — As he has done ...

Pope Leo XIV stepped out onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica to thunderous applause and an electric atmosphere, to ...

The temporary chimney atop the Sistine Chapel released a plume of white smoke on Thursday evening local time, signaling that ...

Pope Leo XIV made his first trip outside Rome since being elected as leader of the Catholic Church. The pope was driven to ...

As a fireworks expert tests the Vatican's contemporary system for "holy smoke," Catholic cardinals mull their divergent ...

The next pope will inherit a soaring deficit and culture of financial malpractice that Francis tried and failed to solve even ...

Hundreds of cardinals attended mass inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Sunday, to mark the end of a nine-day mourning ...

The conclave to choose the new pope is underway. And among the cardinals choosing the new Catholic leader is an Ohio native.

At this early stage of Leo XIV’s pontificate, the text is a “must read” for Catholics. Here are three notable takeaways.

I, too, address the world’s great powers by repeating the ever-present call ‘never again war,’” Leo said from St. Peter’s ...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV lived in St. Louis, Missouri, in the 1970s while studying to become a priest. He was in a parish ...

A conclave to choose a new pope normally takes place 15 to 20 days after the death of a pontiff, meaning this conclave should ...