Leo’s embrace of Francis’ message has come during a series of heat waves gripping Europe this summer, taking lives and ...

Pope Leo XIV is marking his first 100 days in office, showing a mix of continuity with and change from Pope Francis' papacy.

It would not have been easy for anyone to step into the shoes of the fisherman after Pope Francis, just as it was not easy for Benedict XVI to follow St. John Paul II. But Leo XIV has done so with ...

Carlo Alberto Capella served prison time for a child pornography conviction but was allowed to return to work at the Vatican, ...

Pope Leo XIV has decided to declare John Henry Newman a “doctor” of the church, bestowing one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors on the deeply influential 19th Anglican convert who ...

On the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, peace activists representing faith-based and secular ...

Pope Leo smiles as he arrives for a visit to the Santa Marta Retirement Home in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, on July 21, 2025. (photo: Simone Risoluti / Vatican Media) Francis X. Rocca Vatican July 29 ...

Pope Francis led the Catholic Church from March 2013 until his death, after a papal conclave elected him to succeed Pope Benedict XVI, who resigned as pope in February 2013. A member of the Jesuit ...

A survivor of clergy sex abuse in Peru brought her public campaign for reform to the American hometown of Pope Leo XIV.