Leo, 69, spent his career serving as an Augustinian missionary and ministering in Peru before taking over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops. He succeeded Pope Francis, who died April 21.

Leo XIV, the first ever American pope, condemned the exploitation of the poor and called for unity in the church during his inaugural Mass in St. Peter’s Square, an event attended by world ...

Leo, 69, spent his career serving as an Augustinian missionary and ministering in Peru before taking over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops. He succeeded Pope Francis, who died April 21.

Vatican City, May 16, 2025 / 11:59 am Pope Leo XIV on Friday said peaceful societies can be achieved if governments invested in families “founded upon the stable union between a man and a woman ...

When the white smoke poured out of St. Peter’s Basilica last week, 73-year-old Port Charlotte resident Louis Prevost learned that his brother — Cardinal Robert Prevost — had been elected pope.

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, presided over his inaugural Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday in front of a crowd of tens of thousands. World leaders including Vice President JD Vance ...

Pope Leo XIV told cardinals at the Vatican last month that artificial intelligence “pose[s] challenges to human dignity, justice and labor.” ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV affirmed Friday that the family is founded on the “stable union between a man and a woman,” and that the unborn and elderly enjoy dignity as God’s ...

When Pope Leo XIV and U.S. Vice President JD Vance cross paths this weekend in Rome for the new Pope’s inauguration Mass, it won’t be just any ordinary meeting between the supreme pontiff and ...

Pope Leo XIII is depicted in a window at Holy Family Church in Mitchell, S.D. His 1891 encyclical on labor, ''Rerum Novarum,'' marks the start of modern Catholic social teaching.

Leo, 69, spent his career serving as an Augustinian missionary and ministering in Peru before taking over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops. He succeeded Pope Francis, who died April 21.