Centuries ago, Pope Gregory VII forced King Henry IV to kneel barefoot in the snow, symbolizing the Church’s triumph over the state. Now imagine Pope Leo XIV, in a suit, standing before the U.S ...

ROME (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance extended an invitation to Pope Leo XIV to visit the United States during a meeting at the Vatican on Monday ahead of a flurry of U.S.-led diplomatic ...

Pope receives Trump's invitation to visit White House. Vice President Vance on Monday met with Pope Leo XIV and held what the Vatican called “cordial talks.” ...

Once loyal Chicagoans got over the double shock of hearing that a local native, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, has been named the 267th pope, some critically important, locally familiar ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born pontiff, will offer to host leaders from Russia and Ukraine at the Vatican to broker a peace deal in their ongoing war, a top Catholic official said Friday ...

We’re feeling like the pope’s friars,” said the Rev. Pasquale Cormio, rector of Rome’s Basilica of St. Augustine. Leo’s predecessor, Pope Francis, was a Jesuit who took the name of the ...

One thing we are sure about the first American Pope, Leo XIV, is that he was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, as Carl Sandburg described the city, “stormy, husky and brawling ...

Six hundred years later, Pope Gregory VII forced the brilliant monarch of the Holy Roman Empire, Henry IV, to walk barefoot in the snow for miles before granting him forgiveness at Canossa ...

This is what Catholics believe to this day. But while Pope Leo I was called "the Great" — Pope Gregory was the only other pope who shared this title — Pope Leo XIII, who became the 256th pope from ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass and had lunch with members of his Augustinian religious order on Tuesday, slipping into the congregation’s headquarters outside St. Peter’s Square ...

Pope Leo XIV will maintain “an active social media presence” on the official papal accounts on the social platform X and Instagram, the Dicastery for Communication announced Tuesday. The pope ...