In a letter, the pope prayed to St. Francis, asking the saint's intercession "to give us the courage to build bridges where ...

Pope Leo XIV called the attention of the faithful to “the great suffering of the people in eastern Democratic Republic of the ...

"The question we don't really have a good answer to is, what would happen if we scaled these programs up on a larger level?" ...

Curial reform, synodality, and liturgy are on the agenda in the first such gathering of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate ...

Pope Leo XIV Sends 3 Truckloads of Humanitarian Aid to Ukraine Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the Pope’s almoner, disclosed the delivery to Vatican media on Dec. 27 and described the shipment as a small ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV closed out 2025 on Wednesday with a prayer that the city of Rome might be a welcoming place for foreigners and fragile people, young and old. Leo presided over a New Year’s ...

Pope Leo XIV has praised the social contributions of Sungsimdang, a long-established bakery in Korea’s central city of Daejeon, in a message marking the company’s 70th anniversary, the bakery said ...

The death of Pope Francis brought change to the Catholic Church, which counts 1.4 billion adherents and is now led — for the first time — by an American pope. The fatal shooting of conservative ...

The pontiff addressed the crisis in Venezuela in his Angelus address on Sunday, more cautiously than a great many people had been given to hope, but his concern was evident and his message clear.

Pope Leo XIV holds the first Angelus of 2026 on World Day of Peace, appealing to people to "disarm our hearts" and "abstain from all violence". Supreme Court delivers major blow to Trump-era rule ...