Monday’s meeting was significant, representing Leo XIV’s first clear, personal outreach to a leading traditional community ...

For members of the Religion News Association, this was the kind of dramatic appeal that made the Chicago native the top ...

This year’s principal observance is set to take place in Chiclayo, Peru, where Leo previously served as bishop.

Pope Leo XIV closed the door at St. Peter’s Basilica on Jan. 6, 2026, just days into the new year. The act formally brought the Vatican’s Holy Year 2025 – designated as “Pilgrims of Hope” – to an end.

Covering the Vatican, he had a front-row seat to the waning years of Pope John Paul II's pontificate and the election of Pope ...

The zeal to evangelize and announce the Gospel must be tempered with charity and respect for an individual's conscience, Pope ...

Days after the Chicago-born pontiff made his first Christmas message, congregants attending Mass at Holy Name Cathedral for the Feast of the Holy Family said they see parallels in Leo and his ...

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday called on cardinals to experience the extraordinary consistory as a time of spiritual discernment in unity and warned against the temptation to put personal interests ahead of ...

Celebrating Mass at the extraordinary consistory, Pope Leo XIV urges 170 cardinals to set aside personal agendas, prioritize ...

When Pope Francis proclaimed the Jubilee Year of Hope in his papal bull Spes Non Confundit (Hope Does Not Disappoint), he ...

Ahead of the Jan. 7-8 gathering, four cardinals each prepared a paper for the internal use of the cardinals taking part in ...

Pope Leo XIV and the College of Cardinals have begun a synodal journey together to grow in communion and discern "what the ...