A sexual abuse survivors' group is asking Pope Leo XIV to sign new canon law on sex abuse by priests in the Catholic Church.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A quiet alliance between North and South American cardinals helped elect the first US-born pope.

Pope Leo XIV's church is growing steadily, but its believers are no longer concentrated on the continent where it was born.

Peter Jones and a group of Loyola University Chicago educators traveled to Rome for an hour private meeting with Pope Francis. As the white ...

In the wake of the death of Pope Francis, Inside Edition's Mary Calvi traveled to Rome to cover the election of the new pope.

Pope Leo XIV presided over his inaugural mass Sunday, May 18, with world leaders and a crowd of 200,000 people gathered in St ...

Vista said that American Catholics are no longer excluded from Rome by having the U.S.’s first pope, but are now a complete ...

The former Cardinal Robert Prevost vowed to work for unity. “I think he will inspire,” said Susan Hanssen, a professor who ...

Though Pope Leo XIV has been lauded for his advocacy in defense of immigrants and worker rights—his namesake, Leo XIII, who ...

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, history’s first American pope, vowed Sunday to work for unity so that the Catholic Church becomes a symbol of peace in the world, during an inaugural Mass in St. Peter’s Square.