ANALYSIS: Immigration, leadership elections and synodality shaped the bishops’ meeting, but the evidence suggests these developments were already in motion before Pope Leo’s recent interventions. Pope ...

The death of notable figures in 2025, including Pope Francis, the first American pope who transformed the Catholic Church, ...

The death of Pope Francis brought change to the Catholic Church, which counts 1.4 billion adherents and is now led — for the first time — by an American pope.

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For the first time in history, the pope is an American — from Chicago, no less. And like many Americans, Pope Leo XIV seems to love a good yap. Whether it concerns President Donald Trump’s immigration ...

By choosing Türkiye and Lebanon for his first trip, the new American pope sends a striking message of moral pushback in the Middle East and a call ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrates a memorial Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica Nov. 3, 2025, for Pope Francis and all the cardinals and bishops who have died in the past year. Credit: CNS photo/Vatican Media The ...

For months now, something odd has happened when some internet users — including me — ask ChatGPT, the ubiquitous artificial intelligence tool from OpenAI, about Pope Leo XIV. “It looks like there ...

Lebanon needed this embrace.” The words went out over a social media platform, made more poignant for the accompanying image ...