Pope Leo XIV is visiting the papal summer palace south of Rome. His visit is fueling speculation about whether he will use it ...

For years before becoming Pope Leo XIV — as a parish priest and then bishop in Peru — Robert Prevost built ties with interfaith environmental networks and Indigenous organizations to place forest ...

Pope Leo XIV has declared himself a Roman as he completes the final ceremonial steps cementing his role as the bishop of Rome ...

Black smoke has poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave to choose a new leader of the Catholic Church.

Prevost was brought to the Vatican in 2023 by Pope Francis as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations.

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 the Chicago-born priest.

Pope Leo XIV has made his first American bishop appointment. History's first American pope named Bishop Michael Pham as ...

Pope Leo XIV in 2012 made comments critical of what he called the “homosexual lifestyle” and the role of mass media in ...

The people of northern Peru call him el obispo. Sometimes he's Padre Prevost. Maybe when the shock wears off, they'll get ...

Survivors of clergy sexual abuse are amplifying calls for a global zero-tolerance policy and other reforms from the American hometown of the new pope.

Ukraine minerals agreement was paved with challenges. Those included an unprecedented Oval Office blowout, hundreds of revisions, mutual recriminations and a breakthrough moment on the sidelines of ...

Pope Leo XIV has met with members of the Vatican’s child protection advisory commission for the first time amid questions ...