The Vatican says the “need to work tirelessly in favor of peace” was discussed in talks with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Pope Leo XIV will inaugurate the central tower of Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia basilica during his visit to Spain next month.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Rome and Vatican City this week in a bid to ease rising tensions between President Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV over U.S. policies, particularly the Iran war.
Pope Leo XIV is urging Equatorial Guineans to work for freedom, justice and to close the gap “between the privileged and the disadvantaged.”.
Pope Leo XIV has traveled to pray at a popular Catholic shrine in Angola that was an epicenter of the African slave trade.
Pope Leo XIV says it is “not in my interest at all” to debate U.S. President Donald Trump about the war in Iran but that he will continue preaching the Gospel message of peace.
Pope Leo XIV is encouraging young people in Cameroon to resist the temptation to migrate and to stay at home and fight corruption.
Pope Leo XIV's trip to Africa has been marked by an unusual dynamic with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Human Rights Watch, in a detailed new report, says Chinese authorities are increasing pressure on underground Catholic communities to join the state-controlled official church while tightening surveillance and travel restrictions on all of China’s estimated 12 million Catholics.
Pope Leo XIV has arrived in Algeria for a first-ever papal visit, calling for peace amid the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.
Pope Leo XIV has denounced the “delusion of omnipotence” that is fueling the U.S.-Israel war in Iran and demanded political leaders stop and negotiate peace.
Pope Leo XIV has celebrated his first Easter Mass as pontiff, urging peace through dialogue and calling for an end to conflicts worldwide.
Pope Leo XIV carried a wooden cross for all 14 stations of the Way of the Cross at the Colosseum on his first Good Friday as pontiff.
Pope Leo XIV says a Chaldean Catholic bishop has resigned after he was arrested while trying to leave the U.S. following accusations that he embezzled $270,000 from his parish near San Diego.
The Vatican has warned a breakaway traditionalist Catholic group that it risked renewed schism if it goes ahead with plans to consecrate new bishops without papal consent.
Three U.S. Catholic cardinals have urged the Trump administration to use a moral compass in foreign policy.
Pope Leo XIV has baptized 20 babies in the Sistine Chapel, continuing an annual tradition marking the end of the Christmas holiday at the Vatican.
Pope Leo XIV has denounced how nations are increasingly using force to assert their dominion worldwide.
Pope Leo XIV, during his first Christmas Day message, has urged the faithful to shed indifference toward those who are suffering.
On Christmas Eve, thousands of people flocked to Bethlehem's Manger Square and other Holy Land sites, after two years of subdued Christmas celebrations because of the war in Gaza.
Pope Leo XIV says he's “very disappointed” that his home state of Illinois has approved medically assisted suicide.
Pope Leo XIV has summoned the world’s cardinals for meetings to help him govern the church, marking the unofficial start of his pontificate.
Pope Leo XIV has made another high-profile appointment that signals a generational shift in the English-speaking Catholic hierarchy.
Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered a significant fresco of Jesus as the "Good Shepherd" from Anatolia's early Christian era.
Pope Leo XIV has taken his biggest step yet to correct one of Pope Francis’ more problematic financial moves.
Pope Leo XIV has celebrated Lebanon's tradition of interfaith coexistence as a beacon of hope for a conflict-torn region.
Pope Leo XIV has doubled down on the Holy See’s insistence on a two-state solution to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Pope Leo XIV has challenged Lebanon’s political leaders to be true peacemakers and put their differences aside.
Airlines around the world canceled and delayed flights heading into the weekend to fix software on a widely used commercial plane after an analysis found computer code may have contributed to a sudden drop in the altitude of a JetBlue aircraft last month.
Pope Leo XIV has visited Istanbul’s Blue Mosque without praying there as he focused on strengthening ties with Orthodox patriarchs.
Pope Leo XIV has marked a significant moment in his first foreign trip to Turkey by visiting the site of the historic Council of Nicaea.
Israeli forces killed a pair of Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank after they appeared to surrender to troops, drawing Palestinian accusations that the men were executed “in cold blood.”.
Pope Leo XIV is set to embark on his first trip abroad with a visit to Turkey, marking a key event in Catholic and Orthodox Christianity.
Israel has struck Lebanon’s capital for the first time since June, saying it killed Hezbollah’s chief of staff and warning the Iran-backed militant group not to rearm and rebuild.
Pope Leo XIV has strongly backed U.S. bishops who condemned the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Pope Leo XIV is urging countries at United Nations climate talks to take “concrete actions” to stop climate change that is threatening the planet.
Pope Leo XIV has welcomed Spike Lee, Cate Blanchett, Greta Gerwig and dozens of other Hollywood luminaries to a special Vatican audience.
The Vatican has launched an investigation into a possible antisemitic incident involving a Swiss Guard.
Pope Leo XIV has called for deep reflection in the United States regarding the treatment of detained migrants.
A top American cardinal has celebrated a traditional Latin Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica with the explicit permission of Pope Leo XIV.
Pope Leo XIV has canonized Venezuela's “doctor of the poor” before tens of thousands of people.
Pope Leo XIV has denounced the use of hunger as a weapon of war during an address to a U.N. agency.
The Vatican’s child protection board says the Catholic Church has a moral duty to help victims of clergy sexual abuse heal.
Pope Leo XIV has urged labor union leaders from Chicago to advocate for immigrants and welcome minorities into their ranks.
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.
Pope Leo XIV will visit Turkey and Lebanon next month on his first foreign trip as pope.
Pope Leo XIV has named a successor to the embattled archbishop of New Orleans two weeks after the archdiocese agreed to a $230 million settlement for survivors of clergy sexual abuse.
The mother of James Foley, the American journalist kidnapped and beheaded by Islamic militants in Syria in 2014, has told her story of loss and healing at a Vatican vigil attended by Pope Leo XIV.
Pope Leo XIV will preside over his first canonization ceremony Sunday to create the first millennial saint.
Search teams have recovered around 100 bodies from a remote village in Sudan's Darfur region after a landslide devastated the area over the weekend.
Pope Leo XIV has demanded an end to the “pandemic of arms” during a public prayer for victims of a shooting at a Catholic school Mass in the United States.
Pope Leo XIV is demanding that Israel stop the “collective punishment” and forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza.
The Archdiocese of San Antonio announced the transfer of a new auxiliary bishop to the administration, and he is a native of the Alamo City.
Pope Leo XIV has affirmed the right of people to return to their homes after an unjust exile.
Pope Leo XIV has told over a million Catholic youths they are a sign that a different world is possible.
Pope Leo XIV has surprised tens of thousands of young Catholics by showing up unexpectedly at a Holy Year welcome ceremony.
Pope Leo XIV is starting a six-week vacation this weekend at the papal summer retreat south of Rome.
As the floodwaters recede from Camp Mystic, a torrent of grief remains for the families of the children who died and those who went missing when flash floods tore through central Texas earlier this week.
Pope Leo XIV is marking a feast day as the Vatican launches a new campaign to boost donations from the faithful.
Pope Leo XIV has criticized the surge of nationalist political movements in the world as he prayed for reconciliation and dialogue.
Pope Leo XIV blessed the 159 cyclists competing in the Giro d’Italia as the three-week race’s final stage began with an unprecedented ride through the Vatican gardens behind St. Peter’s Basilica.
That Pope Leo XIV is a Chicago White Sox fan and likes to play tennis are already known.
Pope Leo XIV has vowed to work for unity so that the Catholic Church becomes a sign of peace in the world.
Pope Leo XIV has called for the release of imprisoned journalists and affirmed the “precious gift of free speech and the press.”.
Americans in St. Peter’s Square were stunned and joyous when they learned that an American cardinal, Robert Provost, was elected pope and had taken the name Leo XIV.
Cardinal Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.