A new book marks the first anniversary of Leo XIV’s election with a closer look at the papal son of Chicago’s melting pot.

Unlike Pope Francis, who shook things up early on with a flurry of reforms, appointments and new structures, Pope Leo XIV has ...

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 ...

Pope Leo XIV is marking one year since his historic election, making the transition from low-profile cardinal to one of the ...

His appointments of bishops have focused on pastoral care and reflect the changing composition of Catholic pews and priests.

In his first year as pontiff, Pope Leo XIV seems driven not by the dramatic gesture or tensions that often fueled the papacy of his predecessor, but by a calm, persistent zeal to preach the Gospel and ...

A study group established by Pope Francis after the Synod on Synodality has called for a greater role for the laity and clergy in the selection of bishops, especially by involving the diocesan priests ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, is caught in an unprecedented political clash with a U.S. president. But his inherent ...

The vice president "didn’t make the point he thinks he made,” one critic wrote on social media.

From the Camerlengo formally calling out the Pope’s baptismal name three times to confirm ...

A year into his papacy, Leo has shown a readiness to challenge Washington, defying any concerns about the election of an American pontiff.