All the speeches and messages Pope Leo XIV has given since becoming pope May 8 are available on the Vatican website, which ...

The Roman Catholic cardinals from around the world gathering May 7 in Vatican City to elect a pope must untangle a complex web of issues as they consider candidates to lead the church's 1.4 billion ...

The new head of the Catholic church is a tennis fan. Within the walls of Vatican City, he will find his own court to play on.

Catholic cardinal electors from six continents gathered Wednesday inside the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican for the 2025 ... pope elected may be he whom the Church and humanity need at this ...

Pope Francis, who took his name from the patron saint of ecology -- St. Francis of Assisi -- died the day before Earth Day ...

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, vowed to work for unity so that the Catholic Church becomes a sign of peace in ...

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves Wednesday behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to elect the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.

Still, critics from both within and outside of the Catholic Church viewed the reported deal as the Vatican ceding power to China. One clergyman suggested in a New York Times interview in 2018 that ...

Incoming Pope Leo XIV faces what some call the most-challenging environment for religion in China since Mao Tse-tung.

Pope Leo XIV's church is growing steadily, but its believers are no longer concentrated on the continent where it was born.

Tens of thousands came to St. Peter’s Square to mark the official start of the pontificate of the first American to lead the ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV met Thursday at the Vatican with the head of the Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine, in one of his ...