When Pope Leo XIV surprised tens of thousands of young people at a recent Holy Year celebration with an impromptu popemobile ...

In his first 100 days, Pope Leo XIV has balanced tradition and reform, emerging as an unlikely unifier in a divided U.S.

It would not have been easy for anyone to step into the shoes of the fisherman after Pope Francis, just as it was not easy for Benedict XVI to follow St. John Paul II. But Leo XIV has done so with ...

Shaped entirely by the Second Vatican Council, Pope Paul VI dedicated his pontificate to beginning the implementation of the ...

At a gathering that has been called the “Catholic Woodstock,” the church has embraced influencers on social media as a way to ...

Italy has agreed to a Vatican plan to turn a 430-hectare (1,000-acre) plot of land north of Rome into a vast solar farm that will generate enough electricity to meet the needs of Vatican City.

The conclave may not be a direct response to the United States' political turmoil, but in these early days it certainly seems the new pope offers an important ecclesial response to the ...

"Conclave" is the upcoming thriller that explores the tensions and power struggles within the Vatican. Ralph Fiennes steps into the role of a cardinal, and here we check if the story is based on ...

Millions of people around the world were stunned when Pope Leo XIV was elected earlier this year, but one Vatican correspondent wasn't.

A local historian went to Rome for the first time during the conclave. But he wasn’t expecting ‘that’ kind of history.

Leo is resuming the papal tradition of escaping the Roman heat for the relatively cooler climes of Castel Gandolfo, the papal summer retreat on Lake Alban, south of Rome.

An underdog in the papal conclave, Cardinal Robert Prevost shocked the world when he made his debut as Pope Leo XIV from the Vatican balcony in Rome on May 8. But for some University of Chicago ...