Female Catholic leaders say changes initiated by Pope Francis ... Leo XIV highlighted his experience with having women in church leadership, particularly discussing the three women appointed ...

Locals in Chiclayo, Peru, have fond memories of Leo’s work as bishop, but some question his record responding to abuse.

ANALYSIS: From synodal clarity to liturgical peace-making, Pope Leo has several opportunities to promote stronger bonds ...

During the Francis papacy, the role of women in the church emerged as a pressing priority, with Catholics across the globe calling for change.

When it comes to the hotly disputed topics inside the church – same-sex blessings, the ordination of women – the new pope is going to adopt a posture, rather than make bold changes.

The death of Pope Francis, after a very public diminishment, closes a signal chapter in Catholic ... only leadership, and covers a wildly inadequate structure with a veneer of holiness. These images ...

First, those who embrace Pope Francis’ wide-ranging, modernising changes in ... place of women in leadership in a patriarchal church, and the autonomy of local African Catholic dioceses from ...

Pope Leo XIV has been known as the “Latin Yankee” in Rome for the decades he worked in Peru, ministering to the dispossessed ...

The election of Pope Leo XIV brings the Catholic Church closer to the United States in a way it has never been before, but with that comes a unique challenge.

White smoke billowed from the Vatican at about 6 p.m. on Thursday as the papal conclave made its decision about who should become the leader of the Catholic Church. They elected Cardinal Robert ...