The Shrine of the Sacred Heart, a Catholic church a short drive from the White House, was intended to be a sanctuary for worshippers.

A top American cardinal has celebrated a traditional Latin Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica with the explicit permission of Pope Leo XIV.

King Charles III and Queen Camilla have visited the Vatican to pray with Pope Leo XIV.

Prince Andrew has renounced his titles, including Duke of York, after discussions with King Charles III.

Pope Leo XIV has met with an organization of clergy abuse survivors and advocates for the first time.

Pope Leo XIV has canonized Venezuela's “doctor of the poor” before tens of thousands of people.

Prince Andrew has been banished from the royal whirl after emails emerged this week showing that he had remained in contact with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein longer than he previously admitted.

The Catholic Church and Church of England are taking a historic step toward unity.

Pope Leo XIV has denounced the use of hunger as a weapon of war during an address to a U.N. agency.

The Vatican’s child protection board says the Catholic Church has a moral duty to help victims of clergy sexual abuse heal.

Athletes confront failure as often as success during competition.

The Vatican has taken the unusual step of announcing that it had named judges to decide the fate of a famous ex-Jesuit artist accused of sexually, spiritually and psychologically abusing women.

Early on Sunday mornings, tolling bells call the faithful to worship at the three churches in Taybeh.

Pope Leo XIV has urged labor union leaders from Chicago to advocate for immigrants and welcome minorities into their ranks.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has proposed that Qatar could mediate to end the U.S. military presence in international waters near Venezuela.

Pope Leo XIV has criticized how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

The Texas bishop on the front lines of the U.S. immigration crackdown has met with Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican.

Pope Leo XIV will visit Turkey and Lebanon next month on his first foreign trip as pope.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has asked Pope Leo XIV to help maintain peace in Venezuela.

Pope Leo XIV has begun correcting some of Pope Francis’ more questionable financial reforms and decisions.

Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is throwing his weight behind the Vatican’s environmental initiative.

Pope Leo XIV has named a successor to the embattled archbishop of New Orleans two weeks after the archdiocese agreed to a $230 million settlement for survivors of clergy sexual abuse.

Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia basilica is ready to raise its immense central tower over the coming months and become the tallest Christian church in Europe.

The mother of James Foley, the American journalist kidnapped and beheaded by Islamic militants in Syria in 2014, has told her story of loss and healing at a Vatican vigil attended by Pope Leo XIV.

The Chicago suburb where Pope Leo XIV grew up is celebrating his 70th birthday with gospel music and a balloon release outside his boyhood home.

Pope Leo XIV has marveled at the “huge learning curve” he has taken on as pontiff and likened some aspects of the job to jumping “in on the deep end of the pool very quickly.”.

Pope Leo XIV has declared a 15-year-old computer whiz the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint.

Over 1,000 LGBTQ+ Catholics and their families have participated in a Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome.

Pope Leo XIV will preside over his first canonization ceremony Sunday to create the first millennial saint.

Search teams have recovered around 100 bodies from a remote village in Sudan's Darfur region after a landslide devastated the area over the weekend.

Pope Leo XIV has met with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church.

Pope Leo XIV has demanded an end to the “pandemic of arms” during a public prayer for victims of a shooting at a Catholic school Mass in the United States.

"Thoughts and prayers."

Investigators in Minneapolis say the shooter who killed two Catholic school students and wounded 18 other people inside a church was obsessed with the idea of killing defenseless children.

Pope Leo XIV is demanding that Israel stop the “collective punishment” and forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza.

Pope Leo XIV has affirmed the right of people to return to their homes after an unjust exile.

False reports of active shooters have led to panic and temporary lockdowns at Villanova University and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Anguished Pakistanis are searching remote areas for bodies swept away by weekend flash floods as the death toll has reached 277.

Pope Leo XIV is spending the last Sunday of his summer vacation with several dozen homeless and poor people and the church volunteers who help them.

Pope Leo XIV is marking his first 100 days in office, showing a mix of continuity with and change from Pope Francis' papacy.

Madonna has urged the pope to visit Gaza “before it's too late.”.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet next Friday in Alaska to discuss bringing an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance is meeting with U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy.

Pope Leo XIV has told over a million Catholic youths they are a sign that a different world is possible.

Pope Leo XIV urges young people to make radical choices for good during a major event in Rome.

A survivor of clergy sex abuse in Peru brought her public campaign for reform to the American hometown of Pope Leo XIV.

Pope Leo XIV has surprised tens of thousands of young Catholics by showing up unexpectedly at a Holy Year welcome ceremony.

Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to an unconditional ceasefire to end deadly border clashes.

The United Nations human rights office says more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since May while trying to get food in the Gaza Strip.

Pope Leo XIV has marked the 56th anniversary of man’s arrival on the moon Sunday with a visit to the Vatican astronomical observatory in Castel Gandolfo and a call to astronaut Buzz Aldrin.

Pope Leo XIV has renewed his call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

Top church leaders have visited Gaza after its only Catholic church was struck by an Israeli shell the day before.

White Sox great Paul Konerko got a present from one No. 14 to another in honor of the 20th anniversary of the 2005 World Series championship run — a jersey signed by noted Chicago fan Pope Leo XIV.

Erton Köhler, a pastor from Brazil, has been elected president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church General Conference.

The death toll from catastrophic flooding in Texas over the July Fourth weekend has surpassed 100.

The death toll from flash floods that raged through central Texas has risen to 82 after searchers found more bodies.

Pope Leo XIV has arrived at the papal summer retreat of Castel Gandolfo to start a six-week vacation.

Pope Leo XIV is signalling his commitment to continuing the fight against clergy sexual abuse.

Pope Leo XIV is starting a six-week vacation this weekend at the papal summer retreat south of Rome.

Pope Leo XIV is marking a feast day as the Vatican launches a new campaign to boost donations from the faithful.

The U.S. Catholic Church is grappling with a severe priest shortage.

Pope Leo XIV has affirmed that priests must be celibate.

Pope Leo XIV is kicking off a weeklong celebration of Catholic clergy for the Holy Year.

Pope Leo XIV has said there should be no tolerance in the Catholic Church for any type of abuse.

The Vatican has beatified a Congolese government worker who was killed for resisting corruption, giving young people in a part of the world wracked with violence a new model of holiness.

A new AP-NORC poll finds that just over a month after Pope Leo XIV became the first U.S.-born pontiff, American Catholics are feeling excited about their new religious leader.

In his first words directed specifically to Americans, Pope Leo XIV told young people on Saturday how to find hope and meaning in their lives through God and in service to others.

The Catholic Church’s first millennial-era saint Carlo Acutis will be canonized Sept. 7.

Pope Leo XIV has made his first appointment of a Chinese bishop.

Pope Leo XIV has criticized the surge of nationalist political movements in the world as he prayed for reconciliation and dialogue.

The Vatican doesn’t tax its residents or issue bonds, and it's got a very big budget problem.

One of the greatest challenges facing Pope Leo XIV is financial.

Pope Leo XIV has met with members of the Vatican’s child protection advisory commission for the first time amid questions about his past handling of abuse and demands from survivors that he enact a true zero tolerance for abuse policy across the Catholic Church.

Pope Leo XIV blessed the 159 cyclists competing in the Giro d’Italia as the three-week race’s final stage began with an unprecedented ride through the Vatican gardens behind St. Peter’s Basilica.

A group of young Catholics attend Mass every weekday at noon at the Princeton University Chapel.

That Pope Leo XIV is a Chicago White Sox fan and likes to play tennis are already known.

Pope Leo XIV has declared himself a Roman as he completes the final ceremonial steps cementing his role as the bishop of Rome.

Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first American to lead the Catholic Church elevated him to the rare position of being a U.S. citizen who is also a foreign head of state.

Pope Leo XIV's record handling sex abuse cases while he was an Augustinian superior and bishop in Peru has come under renewed scrutiny since his election May 8.

Pope Leo XIV has called for humanitarian aid to reach the Gaza Strip and for an end to the “heartbreaking” toll on its people.

Survivors of clergy sexual abuse are amplifying calls for a global zero-tolerance policy and other reforms from the American hometown of the new pope.

There is a new landmark at the home of the Chicago White Sox — Section 140, Row 19, Seat 2.

Popes -- they’re just like us.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance has extended an invitation to Pope Leo XIV to visit the United States during a meeting at the Vatican.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met with top U.S. and European officials in Rome.

Pope Leo XIV has vowed to work for unity so that the Catholic Church becomes a sign of peace in the world.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that the Vatican can be a venue for Russia-Ukraine peace talks.

The Chicago White Sox plan to unveil a graphic installation on Monday that honors Pope Leo XIV.

For Colombian singer-songwriter Sebastián Yatra, life is full of small miracles that come from dance, family and freedom.

Pope Leo XIV has affirmed core Catholic teaching on marriage and the unborn in his first meeting with the ambassadors accredited to the Holy See.

In his public appearance as pope, Leo called himself an Augustinian, putting an unusual spotlight on his religious order.

Before becoming Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost presided over one of the most revolutionary reforms of Pope Francis’ pontificate by having women serve on the Vatican board that vets nominations for bishops.

Pope Leo XIV has apparently made peace with Jannik Sinner.

Pope Leo XIV is vowing to actively promote and protect the spirituality and traditions of the eastern rite churches, those Catholic communities with origins in the Middle East and North Africa that have been decimated by conflict and persecution.

Pope Leo XIV has met with members of his Augustinian religious order during a visit to the congregation’s headquarters outside St. Peter’s Square.

The contrast between President Donald Trump and Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV couldn’t be more stark, politically, personally or in their world views.

Some conservatives and traditionalist Catholics are cautiously optimistic over the historic election of Pope Leo XIV.

Pope Leo XIV has called for the release of imprisoned journalists and affirmed the “precious gift of free speech and the press.”.