Leo has sought to be a uniter calling for a more peaceful world. We need leaders who remind us of what is possible, who bring ...

Martens said references in Leo XIV’s speech to embracing the whole world as well as synodality are more signs that the new pope will continue to focus on the poor and those on the margins of ...

All four of Pope Leo XIV’s maternal great-grandparents were “free people of color” in Louisiana based on 19th-century census records, Honora found. As part of the melting pot of French ...

President Donald Trump, alongside his wife, Melania, on Monday signed the Take It Down Act, a measure the first lady helped ...

Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here . ••• The world has become accustomed to President Donald Trump using his metaphorical bully pulpit ...

The way it looks now, the Pohlad family will end up retaining ownership of the Minnesota Twins or selling at a price lower ...

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) applauded incoming Pope Leo XIV on his commitment to ...

In his first major foreign policy address, Pope Leo XIV focused on the three words he considers the aim of Vatican diplomacy: ...

Robert Prevost, the first American-born pope, was elected as Pope Leo XIV. The pope's brother, Louis Prevost, a Navy veteran residing in Port Charlotte, Florida, has been giving numerous ...

Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order, took the name Leo XIV. In his first words as Pope Francis’ successor, uttered from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica ...

choosing the name Pope Leo XIV and becoming the first American pope in the Catholic Church's 2,000-year history. The bells of the cathedral in Peru’s capital of Lima, at Holy Name Cathedral in ...