Leo, who was elected the 267th leader of the Catholic Church last week, called for "the precious gift of free speech" to be ...

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I met the man who would become Pope Leo XIV in October 2023. We were standing outside the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and from my ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

After a series of closures by the Chicago Archdiocese, Christ Our Savior Church in South Holland has bragging rights as Pope ...

The Rev. John T. Pawlikowski served as co-founder and director of the school’s Catholic-Jewish Studies Program and also ...

During her show on Friday, the conservative podcast host said she wasn’t surprised that the new pope had disapproved of ...

The pontiff held his first meeting with the news media at the Vatican and called on reporters to choose “the path of ...

Pope Leo XIV traveled to several countries as prior general of the Order of St. Augustine between 2001 and 2013 and also as a ...

Pope Leo XIV, born in Chicago in 1955, became a novitiate in the Order of St. Augustine at age 22 after graduating from ...

Pope Leo XIV called for journalists to use words of peace, to reject war and to give a voice to the voiceless.

Pope Leo XIV called for a genuine and just peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, in his first Sunday noon ...