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 ...

It might sound like the plot of a movie, but newly appointed Pope Leo XIV is reportedly related to one of the biggest pop stars of the ‘80s — Madonna. A tracing of the Pope’s family tree ...

Pope Leo received an official copy of his family tree, which includes his ties to "free people of color" in New Orleans.

When Henry Louis Gates Jr. set out to trace the family tree of America’s first pope, he had no idea he was about to uncover […] ...

Pope Leo XIV look at a pallium, he blessed for the new metropolitan archbishops during a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday, June 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) ...

Leo’s old diocese of Chiclayo, Peru, meanwhile, is waiting for their bishop to come home, and then there’s Argentina, which never got a papal visit from the first-ever Argentine pope.

Pope Leo XIV resumes the tradition of taking a summer vacation. But he’s got plenty of homework By NICOLE WINFIELD The Associated Press,Updated July 5, 2025, 3:30 a.m.

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Sunday celebrated a special feast day traditionally used by the Catholic Church to drum up donations from the faithful, with the Vatican under the first American pope ...