The pop star was photographed on May 8 in attendance at the conclave election of Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, which is a ...

By Patrick Smith and Corky Siemaszko, NBC News Pope Leo XIV told NBC News' Lester Holt on Monday that Catholics who strayed from the church may return in part because it now has an American-born ...

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...

Pope Leo also celebrated Mother’s Day as jubilee bands and thousands of pilgrims created a festive atmosphere in St. Peter’s ...

A POPE FOR EVERYONE — In the first days of his papacy, Pope Leo XIV has taken considerable pains to present himself as a unifier for a Catholic Church internally divided over key liturgical and ...

Hundreds of thousands of devotees of the Virgin Mary on Monday gathered at the sanctuary of Fatima in Portugal to pray for ...

As Pope Leo XIV settles into his new job in the Vatican, Catholics everywhere continue to celebrate, including in the La ...

Support for the new Pope, who is seen as a conciliatory figure, accelerated after the second ballot and coalesced into a ...