Muslims in the pontiff's native city want to see Francis’ social justice approach to Christian-Muslim relations continue.

Pope Leo XIV is the latest public figure targeted by peddlers of false information about Burkina Faso and its leader, Ibrahim ...

Approximately 150 people from Cambodia and abroad are participating in the three-day meeting organized by the Vatican’s ...

For many centuries we have seen the custom of a new pope changing his name. It signals the kind of papacy he envisions as he ...

Pope John Paul II traveled the world with a silver pastoral staff topped with a dramatic, abstract crucifix crafted by the 20th-century artist Lello Scorzelli.

Pope Leo XIV met privately with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his wife May 18, their second encounter of the ...

The Holy Father addressed a throng of more than 200,000 with a tone of humility and gratitude, conscious of the enormous task ...

By Isabella H. de Carvalho On May 19, Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin accepted the award presented by the Path to ...

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle places the papal fisherman’s ring on Pope Leo XIV during the pontiff’s inauguration Mass on May ...

The Vatican said some 200,000 people attended the Mass at St. Peter’s Square, which marked the start of the pontificate of ...

As the Catholic Church welcomed its 267th pope, Leo XIV -- elected May 8 -- attention quickly turned to the first moments of his pontificate. The first weeks of a papacy often give ...