There's a new pope - Pope Leo XIV. A couple of days before the world saw white smoke pour out of that chimney on the top of the Sistine Chapel, I had sat down and spoke with Father James Martin, a ...

On climate change, Leo XIV has continued Pope Francis’s environmental advocacy. In a 2024 address, he declared, “The Earth is our common home, and we must act urgently to protect it for future ...

Pope Leo XIV will be remembered as a pope of many firsts. He is the Roman Catholic Church’s first ever American-born pope and its first Augustinian leader. His predecessor, the late Pope Francis ...

Several Catholic LGBTQ+ ministries are cautiously welcoming Pope Leo XIV, expressing hope he will build on Pope Francis' more inclusive tone, while also noting their concern over resurfaced ...

Pope Leo XIV appears on St. Peter's Basilica for the Regina Caeli prayer in St. Peter's Square on May 11, ... refuses to make opposing women’s rights and LGBT rights his papacy’s primary aim.

Pope Leo’s views on LGBT Catholics are a mystery — but we have clues. ... May 14, 2025. 5 min. Stained glass in Saint Mary Church, Pope Leo XIV's home parish, on May 9 in Chicago. (Erin Hooley/AP) ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass in the Sistine Chapel where he was elected less than 24 hours earlier, warning of the dangers caused by a lack of faith and hoping the Catholic Church could ...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert F. Prevost of the U.S., appears on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, May 8, 2025.

Pope Leo XIV will be remembered as a pope of many firsts. He is the Roman Catholic Church’s first ever American-born pope and its first Augustinian leader. His predecessor, the late Pope Francis ...

(L):Cardinal Robert Prevost, Pope Leo XIV, the 267th Pope in history, appears before his faithful on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica on May 8, 2025, in Vatican City (Vatican).