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

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

A Washington state lawmaker has called on the Catholic Church to change its centuries-old confessional policy so that priests ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Peter’s Square in Italy. “Today is a day unlike any other in American history or the much longer history of the Roman Catholic Church with a pope who was born in America,” said Father Bob ...