With deep ties to both the United States and Peru, Pope Leo steps into spiritual leadership of 1.4 billion Catholics, ...

Despite historic gains under Pope Francis, women remain excluded from the Catholic Church's highest levels of decision-making.

After priest reassignments in the Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg, Christ the King Mission here now falls under the pastoral ...

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 ...

The cardinals who are electing the next pope sometimes look as ideologically polarized as many secular voters around the ...

Pope Leo XIV's church is growing steadily, but its believers are no longer concentrated on the continent where it was born.

Cardinals say Leo would continue to speak out against conflict and violence, following the example of Pope Francis ...

Last year, while Washington's current governor, Ferguson, was still the state's attorney general, he pushed to investigate Catholic church leadership in Seattle, Spokane and Yakima for allegedly ...

The election of Pope Leo XIV brings the Catholic Church closer to the United States in a way it has never been before, but ...