VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Easter Mass as pontiff with a call Sunday to lay down arms and seek peace to global conflicts through dialogue, but he departed from a tradition of ...

Pope Leo pays tribute to ‘great gift’ Pope Francis on first anniversary of his death - Pope Leo XIV has paid tribute to Pope Francis on the first anniversary of his death ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first pope from America, is getting high marks from Catholics as his tenure hits the one-year mark amid clashes with Donald Trump.

Tensions increased further in April, when American cardinals joined Leo in challenging the morality of war against Iran. Trump crudely assailed the pope on social media, denigrating him as “WEAK on ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost became the first U.S. born pope last year, using the papacy as a platform for amplifying the church's ...

Let us pray, then, that the beloved land of Cuba may know days of greater serenity, of authentic human and social development ...

He has a Midwestern grin — modest, self-effacing, almost as if he is trying to hide his teeth. I liked him immediately.

One year later, Pope Leo XIV has confounded the punditry and political commentators in the United States by defying their ...

White smoke billowed from the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel May 8, 2025, signaling that a new pope had been ...

On May 8, 2025, a billow of white smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel chimney, announcing a new pope had been chosen — Pope ...

I t’s a low bar, perhaps, but no one in the Trump administration seems to be having more fun at the moment than Marco Rubio.