Pope Leo has returned to the tradition of awarding bonuses to Vatican employees for their work in the weeks following ...

ROME -- Pope Leo XIV visited the papal summer palace south of Rome on Thursday as questions swirled whether he will use it ...

Leo paid a visit to the Borgo Laudato Si, an educational sustainability project that grew out of Francis’ 2015 environmental ...

We're still at the Rorschach test stage of the papacy, in which people can project almost anything they want to see amid the ...

The Vatican doesn't disclose any financial payments it makes to popes, so how much they might be paid is left to speculation.

The election of a first North American pontiff came after the death of the first Latin American pope and signaled a relinquishing of papal authority from Europe.

Pope Francis, who died at 88 last month, was the first pontiff to be publicly inclusive of the LGBTQ Catholic community.

Pope Francis has been laid to rest, the conclave has been assembled and, after due deliberation by the participating cardinals, the world at last has seen white smoke wafting from the Sistine Chapel ...

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out on Thursday, signaling that a new pope—the 267th leader of the Catholic Church—had been ...

The announcement “Habemus Papam” — “We have a pope” — from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica is followed first by the revelation of the new pontiff’s baptismal name, in Latin, followed by his papal ...

“Pope Leo spoke of Pope Francis as a good friend,” said the Rev. Tony Pizzo, one of the new pope’s friends and a former schoolmate. By 2013, Francis had become pope, and the future Leo had ...

The new pope said he would be guided by a key document ... a path of modernization and cited a major document that Francis issued in 2013. From that document, Leo highlighted multiple objectives ...