VATICAN CITY--Pope Leo XIV made his first appointment of a Chinese bishop under the Vatican’s 2018 agreement with Beijing, signaling he is continuing one of Pope Francis’ most controversial ...

Pope Leo XIV exhorted the faithful on Sunday to reject an "exclusionary mindset" he said had led to nationalism around the world. Leo's homily did not call out current events and conflicts nor ...

Pope Leo XIV appears on the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica after being chosen the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, at the Vatican, Thursday, May 8, 2025.

From his first moments on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Leo XIV gave three important clues about what kind of leader of the 1.4-billion-member Catholic Church he will be. Leo, formerly ...

Pope Leo XIV called on Sunday for compassion for the world’s poor, victims of tyranny and wars, as he celebrated Mass in a parish church that has special spiritual ties to Leo's own Augustinian ...

Cardinal Lazzaro You Heung-sik, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Clergy at the Vatican, shared his special ties with the newly elected Pope Leo XIV and expressed hope that President Lee Jae Myung ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been chosen as the new pope, and has taken the papal name Leo XIV. Here is how the world is reacting and what is known about the first American pontiff in history.

Pope Leo XIV has called on the Catholic Church to become a beacon to 'illuminate dark nights' and reach out those who prefer 'technology, money, success, power or pleasure' in his first mass ...