The first official portrait of Pope Leo XIV was released on Friday. Vatican News shared the portrait on Facebook, and in just three hours, the post was shared over 4,700 times and liked 1,200 times.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV affirmed Friday that the family is founded on the “stable union between a man and a woman,” and that the unborn and elderly enjoy dignity as God’s ...

Pope Leo XIV is now on social media after his election. He posted a message of peace on Instagram and X. Previously, he criticized political leaders on his personal account. Now, that account is gone.

“Here in the gym, no one knew that Robert, now Leo XIV, was a cardinal, least of all me who trained him,” Valerio Masella, 26, told the Italian newspaper Il Messaggero. The Pope, then Cardinal ...

During a music concert at a college on April 25, Sonu Nigam had slammed a fan for allegedly demanding a Kannada song. The singer had said: "I love Kannadigas, but the way one person kept shouting ...

CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Pope Leo XIV’s older brother, Louis Prevost, is opening up about his controversial Facebook posts following his brother’s election as the new pope. Louis entered ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born pontiff, will offer to host leaders from Russia and Ukraine at the Vatican to broker a peace deal in their ongoing war, a top Catholic official said Friday ...

Prior to his elevation to the papacy, Pope Leo XIV stayed out of the spotlight on certain reforms backed by his predecessor but maintained a close relationship with Pope Francis and support for ...

Pope Leo’s childhood church, St. Mary of the Assumption on Chicago’s south side, is in a state of disrepair and in danger of foreclosure, but its opportunistic owner now has a new vision for ...

The pontificate of Pope Leo XIV can bring new impetus to the Church’s evangelical mission in the world today, theologian and philosopher George Weigel said this week. Weigel held a ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV affirmed Friday that the family is founded on the “stable union between a man and a woman,” and that the unborn and elderly enjoy dignity as God’s ...

Vice President JD Vance will be attending the inaugural mass of Pope Leo XIV at St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City on Sunday.Vance will be accompanied by his wife, Second Lady Usha Vance ...