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

Pope Leo XIV singled out the challenges of artificial intelligence as he took office this month, underscoring religious ...

MORE: Pope Leo XIV live updates While Leo XIV's predecessor Pope Francis made historic strides in appointing women to leadership roles -- including Sister Raffaella Petrini as executive of Vatican ...

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 ...

An invitation has already been extended to Pope Leo XIV to attend this year’s COP30 U.N. climate conference in Brazil.

He pointed to the large gathering as evidence of the community’s backing for the Church leadership. Catholic Congress’s global president Rajiv Kochuparambil, who presided over the conference ...