ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV prayed Wednesday for the world to recognize the urgency of the climate crisis and “hear the cry of the poor,” as he celebrated the first papal Mass using a new set of prayers ...

"Clameurs!" translates to "clamors," a direct allusion to Pope Francis' groundbreaking 2015 papal encyclical Laudato Si', a ...

Pope Leo XIV will declare John Henry Newman a “doctor” of the church, bestowing one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors ...

On Sunday, Pope Francis faced calls for his resignation from the former Vatican ambassador to Washington, Carlo Maria Vigano, who said in a letter that he told the Pontiff about allegations of ...

One new American archbishop says having a pope from Chicago is something to think about, since “Catholicism in Chicago has ...

The new Mass, Pro Custodia Creationis (For the Care of Creation), was initially ordered by Pope Francis, who made the environment a major theme of his papacy and the subject of his second ...

Pope Leo XIV is also enacting a plan to build a solar farm that would make Vatican City the world’s first carbon-neutral state. View on euronews ...

Hundreds of thousands of people braved wet and windy weather to attend Pope Francis' Mass at Phoenix Park in Dublin on Sunday, while thousands more gathered in the city center for protests against ...

In one of his most controversial acts, Francis in 2021 reversed Pope Benedict XVI’s signature liturgical legacy and restricted access for ordinary Catholics to the old Latin Mass.

Pope Leo, whose role in advocating for peace in Gaza has become notably stark since Israel struck the territory's only ...

Later, the pope had an official meeting with President Raul Castro, Castro's brother. Pope Francis meets with former Cuban President Fidel Castro at Castro's resident in Havana, Sept. 20, 2015.