WASHINGTON -- Plunging headlong into the issues of the day, Pope Francis opened his visit to the United States with a strong call Wednesday for action to combat climate change, calling it a problem ...

Those who hoped that Pope Leo XIV would back away from Pope Francis ' concerns about global warming and the environment were severely disappointed last week. Instead, Leo firmly embraced the ...

ROME — Pope Leo XIV took aim Wednesday at skeptics who “ridicule those who speak of global warming,” as he strongly embraced Pope Francis’ environmental legacy and made it his own in some of his ...