The new Chicago-born pope did not shy from world events in his public address following a prayer to the Virgin Mary, as he cited the recent 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, a conflict ...

Pope Leo XIV called for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza with the release of hostages and delivery of humanitarian aid in his first Sunday noon blessing as ...

Chicago's St. Mary's church, connected to Pope Leo XIV's past, captures local interest amid restoration efforts.

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...

I, too, address the world's great powers by repeating the ever-present call: ‘never again war,’” Leo said from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica.