The queer Catholics hope that Pope Leo XIV’s ministry does not witness the absence of ecclesiastical embrace, of the kind ...

Pope Leo XIV has said little publicly about a place in the Catholic Church for gay and transgender people. Some thought the issue would not be key to his agenda. By Liam Stack Pope Leo XIV ...

The 19th reports that newly elected Pope Leo XIV, the first American to hold the papacy—as well as the first Peruvian citizen ...

The College of Cardinals on Thursday elected Cardinal Robert Prevost from Chicago as the Catholic Church’s next pope. Leo XIV ...

The papal conclave was officially over at around 6 p.m. local time Thursday after white smoke was seen rising from the Sistine Chapel chimney, signaling a new pope had been elected.

Pope Leo XIV appears on the central balcony of St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican to bless the crowd below on 11 May 2025.

USA Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected the new pope and leader of the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday (May 8), and has taken the name Pope Leo XIV a senior cardinal announced to crowds in S ...

For a brief moment, it seemed Spokane would have a direct link to the papacy, and more so than just the Washington State University flag that was spotted waving in the Vatican square during the ...

“I will wear Dignity insignia, have rainbow flags,” she said. Pope Francis died on April 21. His funeral took place five days later. The Vatican’s tone on LGBTQ ... and then had a ...