Pope Leo XIV embraces a Roman tradition by praying for peace at a statue of the Madonna near the Spanish Steps ...

Pope Leo XIV got into the Christmas spirit Monday by taking part in a very Roman papal tradition: praying for peace at a ...

Pope Leo XIV participated in Roman holiday traditions by praying for peace at the Madonna statue near the Spanish Steps.

Seeking to unify a recently decriminalized faith, Roman emperor Constantine the Great called a summit of early Christians in the ancient Anatolian city of Nicaea. The then-nascent religion’s ...

The minute sports fans found out there was a new American pope and he’d been born in Chicago, every American sports fan had one thought: was he a Cubs or White Sox fan? Soon, news emerged that he was ...

Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday strongly affirmed U.S. bishops' message condemning the Trump administration’s immigration sweeps, calling on Americans to listen to the migrants and treat them humanely and ...

“A moment of great familiarity” is how Abbess Maria Cristina Daguati of the Augustinian convent in Montefalco, Italy, described Pope Leo XIV’s visit on Thursday. After visiting the tomb of St. Francis ...

Pope Leo XIV marked the start of Advent on Saturday with an appeal for unity and peace, telling thousands gathered for Mass in Istanbul that Christians “journey as if on a bridge that connects earth ...

Pope Leo XIV is heading to join Orthodox patriarchs in commemorating an important moment in Christian history IZNIK, Turkey -- IZNIK, Turkey (AP) — Pope Leo XIV traveled Friday to join Orthodox ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV is embarking on his first foreign trip, a pilgrimage to Turkey and Lebanon that would be delicate under any circumstances but is even more fraught given Mideast tensions ...