while Leo XIII accepted the Republic as a political system, he didn’t shy away from opposing laws or ideas he saw as contrary to Catholic doctrine. The new pope has chosen a name associated with ...

Catholic leader tells Argentina’s president during one-to-one meeting that he plans to travel to the country. Vatican statement highlights discussions on poverty and social cohesion.

VATICAN CITY – Newly elected Pope Leo XIV faces a tough diplomatic challenge: the Vatican-China Agreement of 2018. This deal ...

As Pope Leo XIV has already discovered, it's nearly impossible for a pope to stay above politics. And there's already every ...

Pope Leo XIV praised a major bioethics summit in Rome for promoting science rooted in truth and respect for human dignity.

When someone accepts election as pontiff, there undergoes a change in that individual, not only in life purpose in leading ...

Pope Leo XIV, in a message to participants of an international bioethics conference, issued a call for scientists to ‘contribute to the search for truth, so that science may remain at the service of ...

Pope Leo XIV praised a major bioethics summit in Rome for promoting science rooted in truth and respect for human dignity.

One former student called the longtime University of Chicago Divinity School professor "an intellectual who loved to think." ...

The Assyrian Church of the East is among the world's most ancient Christian communities, with roots in Mesopotamia. Its ...

Muslims in the pontiff's native city want to see Francis’ social justice approach to Christian-Muslim relations continue.

The U.S.-born leader of the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East discusses the rapid decline of Christianity ...