ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe of Catholics, riven by political divisions that have thwarted the will of ...

Religious scholars and political pundits are asking if (and how far) the new Pope Leo XIV will advance the Church, and ...

Pope Leo XIV, history's first American pope, has vowed to work for unity so that the Catholic Church becomes a sign of peace ...

Tens of thousands came to St. Peter’s Square to mark the official start of the pontificate of the first American to lead the ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope from Chicago, could boost interest in the Catholic Church, potentially increasing ...

Joe Biden, who was the second Catholic U.S. president, told CNN he expects Pope Leo XIV, a friend of Pope Francis, to “keep moving the church in the direction to be more ecumenical and reaching ...

It seems he took his own advice a bit too literally, because he left a mess for his successor, Pope Leo XIV, whose inaugural Mass will take place this Sunday. In today’s Catholic Church ...