Pope Leo XIV gave his first homily at a Mass on Friday, one day after he was selected by a conclave of cardinals at the Vatican to lead the Catholic Church. The first U.S. pope in history said he ...

The village of Dolton, Ill., has stepped in to buy the modest house where Pope Leo XIV spent some of his childhood. It may ...

The village of Dolton is considering the use of eminent domain to take ownership of Pope Leo XIV's childhood home.

A prominent Catholic newspaper is among those suggesting Pope Leo XIV may be the first Black pontiff in the Catholic Church’s history. The National Catholic Reporter, citing cenus records over a ...

Before the doors were shut, leaders of the Catholic church from over 70 countries – the largest conclave in history — filed into the 15th century Sistine Chapel and — wearing robes from ...

New York’s Catholic bishops—led by a favorite cardinal of Donald Trump—sharply rebuked the president over an AI-generated image he posted of himself as pope. “There is nothing clever or ...

Some Catholic leaders and at least one U.S. Catholic group are criticizing President Trump after he posted on social media what appears to be an artificial intelligence-generated image of himself ...