Vice President JD Vance attended Pope Leo's inaugural mass. The trip could set the tone for the Trump administration's ...

With deep ties to both the United States and Peru, Pope Leo steps into spiritual leadership of 1.4 billion Catholics, ...

Despite historic gains under Pope Francis, women remain excluded from the Catholic Church's highest levels of decision-making.

Pope Francis is being remembered as a pastoral leader – and in some ways, his treatment of women in the Catholic Church was ...

The new pope opposed letting women serve as deacons but endorsed some of his predecessor’s moves to expand their involvement.

African and European bishops say European leaders are prioritizing their own countries' benefits from African land deals, ...

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 ...

Pope Francis didn’t affirm same-sex marriage or lobby for ordaining women as priests. But he gently steered the Catholic ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first person from the United States to lead the Catholic Church, is taking on a financial headache in his ...