Pope Francis didn’t affirm same-sex marriage or lobby for ordaining women as priests. But he gently steered the Catholic ...

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

The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and lesbian faithful. Some wished he’d gone further.

Pope Francis died Monday at the age of 88. As tributes pour in from around the world, the Vatican faces a transition.

An American rabbi has voiced optimism for Catholic-Jewish relations after the election of Pope Leo XIV, saying his ...

the American Catholic Church, still reeling from endemic molestations and cover-ups, began looking good by comparison. It had a new pope, in Francis, who dedicated himself to two things that ...

Vice President JD Vance attended Pope Leo's inaugural mass. The trip could set the tone for the Trump administration's ...

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

Resurfaced comments from 2023 indicate that Pope Leo XIV may follow in the footsteps of his predecessor Pope Francis when it comes to the Church’s treatment of LGBTQ+ Catholics. During a 2023 ...

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

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