Pope Leo XIV has affirmed core Catholic teaching on marriage and the unborn in his first meeting with the ambassadors ...

One Erie bishop met the new pope almost a decade ago in Rome. Another bishop with local ties is going to Pope Leo XIV's ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV met Thursday at the Vatican with the head of the Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine, in one of his ...

Survivors say the new pontiff must urgently improve on Pope Francis’s complicated legacy by committing to transparency and ...

But St Francis Xavier Chapel, which has a strong claim to be the oldest surviving Catholic church in sub-Saharan Africa, ...

ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe ...

The first American pope arrives at a time of extraordinary complexity and tension in the church in the United States.

Chicago’s South Side was solidly working class during Pope Leo’s childhood, said Rob Paral, a researcher at the Great Cities ...

The Catholic Church has issued a warning to its clergy in Washington state: Any priest who complies with a new law requiring ...

After a series of closures by the Chicago Archdiocese, Christ Our Savior Church in South Holland has bragging rights as Pope ...

At this moment of change and possibility, four principles that Francis lived, and that Leo XIV has begun to echo, must guide ...

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 ...