Pope Leo XIV approved expanded benefits for Vatican employees with children, formalizing the five-day paternity leave granted ...

Stories about “the first 100 days” are standard fare at the beginning of a U.S. president’s four-year term; the articles ...

Pope Leo has approved measures benefiting Vatican employees, expanding paternity leave, the rights of parents with disabled ...

As Pope Leo XIV approaches the 100-day mark of his papacy on Saturday, Mississippi’s Catholics are largely ecstatic about the ...

Past papal elections and the subsequent honeymoon period of the new pope have, in general, brought increases in donations to ...

The pontiff is viewed more favorably across party lines, although "consistent with the ideological differences in his ratings ...

Pope Leo XIV tops a new Gallup poll on world leaders, appealing to U.S. residents broadly in a politically divided – and divisive – nation. The poll, conducted by telephone July 7-21 with 1,002 adults ...

Pope Leo XIV is calling for the release of eight hostages in Haiti, including a 3-year-old boy and a longtime Irish missionary who remain in captivity after being abducted from a mountaintop orphanage ...

Leo’s predecessor, Pope Francis, was a hit with many young people, with a style that put aside pre-prepared speeches to ...

After a two-day conclave, the cardinal electors chose Robert Francis Prevost to lead the church on May 8, when he took on the name Pope Leo XIV and became the first American to be named pope. Leo has ...

Matthew Bunson's Portrait of the First American Pope: Leo XIV and Christopher White's Pope Leo XIV: Inside the Conclave, Dawn ...

The Chicago-born pope said that a gathering of young faithfuls in Rome was a "sign that a different world is possible." ...