Pope Leo showed a special interest in the well-being of immigrants during his work before the papacy and has been described as the “first modern immigrant pope.” ...

Pope Leo XIV's first message to the world shortly after becoming the new pontiff focused on bringing more peace and connections to the world. The new pope stood and admired the huge, cheering crowd ...

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 ...

Leo XIV said workers face a new threat of artificial intelligence, which poses "new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice and labor." Leo said Francis, who served 12 years as pontiff, ...

What to know about Pope Leo XIV, and the reaction to the first American-born pontiff. How the woman at the centre of the Hockey Canada sexual assault trial responded to a defence lawyer's ...

Pope Leo XIV waves during the formal inauguration of his pontificate in St. Peter's Square attended by heads of state, royalty and ordinary faithful, Sunday in The Vatican. Photo by Alessandra ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV ’s inaugural Mass on Sunday morning in St. Peter’s Square and Basilica is a ritual filled with symbolism that connects back to Peter, ...

Pope Leo XIV rides a horse at the Incahuasi mountains near Chiclayo, Peru in 2025. The U.S.-born pontiff became a Peruvian national in 2015 and devoted more than 20 years as a missionary in the ...

That wariness, in part, stems from Rome’s condemnation of the heresy of “Americanism,” as it was called by no less a figure than Leo XIII, who was pope from 1878 to 1903.

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV appears with, from left, Archbishop Diego Giovanni Ravelli, Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Cardinal Vinko Puljic on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican ...