Leo will continue his predecessor's historic decision allowing priests to honor queer couples, though same-sex marriage ...

The Catholic Church will continue to allow blessings for same-sex couples — but not recognition for their unions as ...

Pope Leo XIV is on vacation at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, a 135-acre estate featuring multiple ...

"Christian hope always urges us to be more daring, to think big, to be dissatisfied with things the way they are," the pope ...

Pope Leo XIV has written a warm and detailed letter to Cardinal Raymond Burke, thanking the American cardinal for 50 years of ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass for the Care of Creation on the grounds of the Borgo Laudato Si’ ecology center in Castel ...

Pope Leo interrupted a two-week vacation on Wednesday to celebrate a special Mass exhorting Catholics to exercise care for ...

Pope Leo XIV is also enacting a plan to build a solar farm that would make Vatican City the world’s first carbon-neutral ...

Pope Francis was elected in 2013 and chose his name in honor of St. Francis of Assisi, the 13th-century Italian friar who renounced his wealth to become "a man of peace, a man of poverty, a man ...

Pope Francis’s election was unique, because the pope that preceded him resigned from the papacy, which is rare. Pope Benedict XVI was pope for eight years, from 2005 through 2013.

Pope Leo XIV will visit the Castel Gandolfo in Rome for a summer holiday. As he's doing for himself, the Pope encouraged ...

From priest to pope—will his missionary past define him as the leader of 1.4 billion Catholics, or will Pope Leo become ...