VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV vowed Sunday to work for unity in a polarized Catholic Church and world, as history's first American pope offered a message of healing during an inaugural Mass ...

Pope Leo XIV appears on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican to bless the crowd below on May 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) Ethan Menning, 21, from Omaha, Nebraska ...

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A video authentically showed Pope Leo XIV condemning U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration policies as "a blatant trampling on both the teachings of the church and the promises 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 ...

The official portrait of Pope Leo XIV, soon to adorn hundreds of thousands of Catholic churches, chanceries, parish offices, rectories, schools, chaplaincies and hospitals, is doubly significant.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Monday called for the release of imprisoned journalists and affirmed the “precious gift of free speech and the press” in an audience with some of the ...

Her son was in the second grade when Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, was in eighth grade at St. Mary school. “To me, it was a miracle” she said. “Something good came out of Dolton.” ...

When Robert Prevost took the name Leo XIV after being elected pope on 8 May, much was read into the reference this made to Leo XIII, a late 19th-century reformer and champion of social justice ...

Robert Prevost elected on May 8 after gaining two-thirds majority support. He cites Pope Leo XIII's work on social issues during the Industrial Revolution. In his first formal address as the ...

The prelate further emphasized the pastoral profile of Pope Leo XIV, describing him as “a shepherd with the smell of sheep,” deeply human, sensitive to the suffering of the most vulnerable ...