A new AP-NORC poll finds that just over a month after Pope Leo XIV became the first U.S.-born pontiff, American Catholics are ...

In his first words directed specifically to Americans, Pope Leo XIV told young people on Saturday how to find hope and ...

Carlo Acutis was 15 when he died in northern Italy in 2006, after a short bout with leukemia. The pope announced Friday he'll ...

Pope Leo XIV received papal representatives at the Vatican on Tuesday, reminding them that the Church “will always defend the sacrosanct right to believe in God” and that this life “is not ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, vowed Sunday to work for unity so that the Catholic Church becomes a symbol of peace in the world, offering a message of communion ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV said Friday that his election was ... each and every one of you to walk with me as we continue as a church, as a community, as friends of Jesus, as believers, to ...

(Photo by Catholic Press Photo/MAXPPP ... U.S. Cardinal Robert Prevost elected Pope Leo XIV Prevost has also called for a shift in how the Church understands authority. “We must stop hiding ...