VATICAN CITY, — When Pope Leo XIV surprised tens of thousands of young people at a recent Holy Year celebration with an ...

An examination of Pope Leo's first 100 days reveals a Catholic leader eager to build bridges and unify conservatives and ...

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 ...

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

Pope Leo XIV was elected May 8, making Aug. 16 the 100th day since he stepped out onto the balcony of Saint Peter’s Basilica ...

But when Pope Francis died in April 2025, the account pivoted to real-time coverage of the actual papal conclave —and attracted nearly 100,000 followers fast.

Almost three months since Pope Leo’s election, he has appeared about as rarely in the news as a new pope can.

Pope Leo XIV has extended his vacation at Castel Gandolfo by two days. How does he relax? And what have other popes done with their downtime?

Pope Francis’s relation- ship with Africa was grounded in mutual respect; he saw African Catholics not as recipients of charity, but as co-creators of the church’s future.

The professor believes the papal conclave selected Pope Leo to continue Pope Francis’s “agenda of synodality,” a commitment to consultation and deep dialogue with global Catholics ...