Pope Leo XIV has decided to declare John Henry Newman a “doctor” of the church, bestowing one of the Catholic Church’s ...

Pope Francis will be discharged on Sunday from the hospital where he has spent more than a month being treated for double pneumonia, Dr. Sergio Alfieri, the head of the team taking care of the ...

The pope met privately with the Cuban revolutionary leader Sunday. — -- Photos captured the intimate, historic meeting between Pope Francis and Fidel Castro Sunday. The images show the leader ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV prayed Wednesday for the world to recognize the urgency of the climate crisis and “hear the cry of the poor,” as he celebrated the first papal Mass using a new set of prayers ...

Pope Leo XIV presided over his inaugural mass Sunday, May 18, with world leaders and a crowd of 200,000 people gathered in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. Following the death of Pope Francis ...

Pope Francis, Leo's predecessor, died on April 21, after he was discharged from a weeks-long hospital stay. The newly installed pontiff also paid tribute to him, saying on Sunday his death "filled ...

Marcel and Ann Muñoz were decked out with their three kids in shirts reading, "Da Pope" when they went to see Pope Leo XIV ...