Pope Leo XIV has met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and the two discussed the urgent need for assistance to civilians in Gaza and a two-state solution to end the conflict ...

Twenty cardinal electors and influential cardinal non-electors spoke to NCR after Pope Leo XIV's election. In Part 2 of this series, the conclave opens and the cardinals make their crucial choice.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has freed two Roman Catholic priests convicted of "serious crimes against the state ...

Two Roman Catholic priests who were imprisoned on what human rights officials said were politically related charges were ...

The Vatican recognized Palestine a decade ago, and Pope Leo has backed statehood, even if that looks increasingly unlikely.

On Wednesday night, in a quiet corner of Antoine's in the heart of New Orleans' oldest neighborhood, two branches of Pope Leo's family that lost touch two generations before he was born were reunited ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for the first time on Thursday, and the two men discussed the urgent need to provide assistance to civilians in Gaza and to ...