Pope Leo XIV is praying for China’s Catholics to be in communion with the Holy See. Leo's comments Sunday were his first ...

Newly-elected Pope Leo addresses the crowd on the main central loggia balcony of St. Peter's Basilica for the first time on May 8, 2025. Newly-elected Pope Leo addresses the crowd on the main ...

As many celebrate Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost's historic selection as pope, the world's largest organization for clergy sexual abuse victims is worried about the pontiff's past handling of ...

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, center, with other cardinals at St. Peter's Basilica on April 23. (Alessandra Tarantino/AP) 33,623 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster ...

She has reported for TIME from Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe. Any baptized man can become pope, but traditionally he (and it is always a ‘he’) is elected from the college of Cardinals.

ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe of Catholics, riven by political divisions that have thwarted the ...

Sixteen days after the reign of Pope Francis ended with his death on Easter Monday, the Catholic Church is looking to the future. The papal conclave got underway Wednesday afternoon in 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.