The election of Pope Leo XIV has refocused attention once again on the mega ethical issue of our time Who and what is a human ...

A century ago, Pope Leo XIII defended workers’ rights during the Industrial Revolution. Will Leo XIV do the same for AI?

Pope Leo XIV, with his American background, is likely to prioritize the Vatican’s alignment with the West in general, rather ...

New pontiff Robert Francis Prevost embraces a long Catholic tradition of standing with laborers by picking Leo as his name | ...

Francis Rooney, former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, reflects on the time he spent with Cardinal Robert Prevost before he ...

The first American pope arrives at a time of extraordinary complexity and tension in the church in the United States.

As the first pope from the United States and a dual citizen of America and Peru, Pope Leo XIV — a native of the Windy City — ...

How Pope Leo XIV chooses to tackle critical topics from same-sex marriage to women in the church remains to be seen, but ...

Prevost, who was promoted by Francis and has a knack for management and a zeal for missionary work, was a stronger candidate ...

All four of Pope Leo XIV’s maternal great-grandparents were “free people ... “So, I also view him as a Latino pope because ...

That the new pontiff’s ancestry can be partially traced to a historic enclave of Afro-Caribbean culture in New Orleans has ...

Leo’s ascent occurred with remarkable speed. Just over two years ago, he’d been one of the church’s 5,400 bishops — a role ...