Pope Leo XIV will face many challenges in his time as leader of the Catholic Church, including how to counter Chinese ...

"I hope to be able to respond to [the challenges] with a healthy dialogue," said Cardinal Robert Prevost in 2023.

How Leo confronts the lingering global crisis could be of particular interest to Catholics in the Philadelphia region.

The newly anointed Pope Leo XIV came to the balcony clad in a white cassock topped by a red cape trimmed in ermine and draped ...

Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native, has participated in seven separate contests since 2012, including three Republican primaries.

Last month, the monarch and Queen Camilla met with the late Pope Francis while visiting Rome. On Friday, the royal couple ...

Leo XIV held his first Mass as pope in the Sistine Chapel on Friday, in what was a private service for the 132 voting ...

The 2025 papal conclave at the Vatican ended with the election of American-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. Here ...

As the leader of Vatican City, he is the head of a sovereign nation. But maintaining dual citizenship as a foreign head of ...

Everyone’s question — every cardinal’s question — before this week’s conclave concerned continuity with or divergence from ...

Vatican City • At a Mass in the Sistine Chapel on Friday attended by the cardinals who had elected him their leader the day ...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV is in a new job that will have many crossovers into politics. It's a realm not entirely unknown to ...