Pope Leo XIV gave his first homily at a Mass on Friday, one day after he was selected by a conclave of cardinals at the Vatican to lead the Catholic Church. The first U.S. pope in history said he ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV's election as the first U.S.-born leader of the Catholic Church elevated him to the extremely rare, and legally thorny, position of being an American citizen who now ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pope Leo XIV has taken aim at autocrats causing war and unrest across the globe, in his first speech after his inauguration as the ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV, history’s first U.S.-born pontiff, said Friday that his election was both a cross to bear and a blessing as he celebrated his first Mass as head of the Catholic Church.

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV met Thursday at the Vatican with the head of the Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine, in one of his first audiences as pontiff that reaffirmed his appeal for a peaceful, ...

Members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops are digesting that one of their own is now the head of the Catholic Church. A remarkable week for the Catholic Church. Cardinals meeting at the ...

I n 1633, Galileo Galilei stood in the convent of the Santa Maria sopra Minerva church in Rome, where a tribunal of Catholic authorities forced him to “abjure, curse, and detest” his belief that the ...