Before his rise in the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV served as the prior general of the Order of St. Augustine and cultivated strong ...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Leo XIV signaled on Saturday he would continue with the vision and reforms of Pope Francis, telling the ...

In his first formal audience on Saturday, Leo made clear he will follow in the modernizing reforms of his predecessor, Pope Francis, to make the Catholic Church inclusive, attentive to the faithful, ...

News of an American pope, and a Chicagoan, causes NPR's Scott Simon to remember what it was like attending Mass in his ...

U.S. and Chinese officials are meeting in Switzerland for the first major talks since the trade war intensified last month.

The new pope, Leo XIV, has this in common with many of his peers in the Catholic hierarchy: He's been in positions of ...