Just yesterday, Pope Francis began a love affair with nearly every demographic of Americans previously alienated by the Catholic church when he asked for the religious right to step off a bit from ...

Pope Francis says the Catholic Church has become "obsessed" with abortion, gay marriage, and contraception, and it needs to get over it. "It is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time," ...

The Hashemite queen is the first queen to pay a private visit to Leo XIV. For the audience with the Pontiff, the sovereign ...

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Jesuit Jorge Bergoglio walks an austere path befitting St. Francis. March 13, 2013— -- Taking the name Francis, after the saint who ministered to the poor, Argentine Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the ...

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

Pope Leo XIV is not going to reject the reforms of Pope Francis, but neither is he going to quickly move beyond them.

Last week, Pope Leo XIV introduced a significant reform to the financial architecture of the Holy See.