Bishop Vann also had a private audience with the pope earlier this month, giving him a gift box prepared by local children.

Pope Leo XIV approved expanded benefits for Vatican employees with children, formalizing the five-day paternity leave granted ...

Pope Leo has approved measures benefiting Vatican employees, expanding paternity leave, the rights of parents with disabled ...

Pope Leo XIV calls Catholics worldwide to invest their lives in compassion and mercy, urging vigilance and generosity in ...

Pope Leo XIV encouraged the participants of the Medjugorje youth festival to unite the flames of their hearts so that this ...

"May those who make decisions always keep in mind their responsibility for the consequences their choices have on populations ...

Pope Leo XIV was elected May 8, making Aug. 16 the 100th day since he stepped out onto the balcony of Saint Peter’s Basilica ...

There was euphoria in the air, but a sense of something deeper, too. Something more profound. A joy, a sense of goodness, a ...

Pope Leo XIV, the American-born pontiff who spent most of his ministry in Peru before rising to the Vatican, is the most ...

The pontiff is viewed more favorably across party lines, although "consistent with the ideological differences in his ratings ...

Fluent in English, Spanish and Italian, Pope Leo XIV has so far preferred to speak Italian in public settings. Some Vatican ...

Pope Leo XIV has expressed profound sorrow over the deaths of ministers, government officials, and military personnel who ...