The pontiff will stay on the hilltop Vatican property “for a period of rest” from the afternoon of July 6 to the afternoon of ...

ROME -- Pope Leo XIV signaled commitment to continuing the fight against clergy sexual abuse by appointing France's Bishop ...

Pope Leo XIV has appointed France's Bishop Thibault Verny to lead the Vatican's child protection advisory commission. Verny replaces Cardinal Sean O'Malley, who was founding president. The commission ...

Pope Leo XIV is starting a six-week vacation this weekend at the papal summer retreat south of Rome. It's his first break ...

The world now faces “another industrial revolution,” Leo XIV said last month, spurred not by mechanized manufacturing but by artificial intelligence.

Sunday will mark one month since the election of Pope Leo XIV. Many people have looked at discrete decisions, like his choice of clothing, as tea leaves about his pontificate, whether they are or not.

Pope Leo XIV, in white, is flanked by Monsignor Leonardo Sapienza, in purple sash, after his meeting with the College of Cardinals in the New Synod Hall at the Vatican, May 10, 2025. (Vatican Media) ...

Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first U.S.-born leader of the Catholic Church elevated him to the extremely rare, and legally thorny, position of being an American citizen who now is also a ...

Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first U.S.-born leader of the Catholic Church elevated him to the extremely rare, and legally thorny, position of being an American citizen who now is also a ...

Pope Leo XIV waves to the crowds while holding his first general audience on May 21, 2025, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune) ...

Pope Leo XIV continues to greet people inside the basilica as the crowd watches on screens after installation Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, May 18, 2025, at the Vatican.