Leo was first appointed a bishop by Francis in 2015 and then chosen by the late pope to take up a senior Vatican role two years ago. He has frequently praised his predecessor in his first weeks.

A massive landslide triggered by the collapse of part of the Birch Glacier buried nearly 90 percent of the Catholic village of Blatten in Switzerland's Lötschental Valley on May 28. All 300 residents ...

Pope Francis greets Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, the grand imam of Egypt’s al-Azhar, after an interreligious meeting at the Founder’s Memorial in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Feb. 4, 2019 ...

People had to do a double take after they spotted a 'surreal' detail on Pope Leo's outfit as he celebrated Holy Mass over the weekend. Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was welcomed into ...

But following Francis, Leo insisted on the missionary dimension of the Curia. He repeated what he said on his first day as pope, "Together, we must look for ways to be a missionary church, a ...

These words, spoken by Pope Francis, who died a month ago today, revealed his tender heart for children and his dedication to the most vulnerable among us. An important and well-known part of Pope ...

As a missionary and bishop in Peru, the future Pope Leo came face-to-face with one of the most serious and far-reaching scandals in the church in Latin America.

While the pope was born on Chicago's South Side in 1955, he spent his childhood, along with his two brothers, in the Dolton suburb. "We all grew up in Dolton," his brother John Prevost told NBC ...

The childhood home of the new Pope Leo XIV is seen in Dolton, Illinois, on May 9, 2025. Robert Francis Prevost became the first pope from the United States on May 8, 2025, picking the papal name ...

Usually, popes live in the papal apartments at the Apostolic Palace. Pope Leo may buck tradition like Pope Francis. Photos show the spacious quarters.

Pope Leo XIV is both the first American pope and the first boomer pope, and any projections about what his papacy will look like are premature right now.