ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV prayed Wednesday for the world to recognize the urgency of the climate crisis and “hear the cry of the poor,” as he celebrated the first papal Mass using a new set of prayers ...

Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday received a rock star's welcome at the Vatican's festival of Catholic influencers — priests, nuns and ...

The private Mass was celebrated for about 50 staffers of the Laudato Si center, named for Francis’ 2015 environmental encyclical Praised Be (Laudato Si in Latin), in which the first pope from ...

The private Mass was celebrated for the Laudato Si centre, named for Francis’ 2015 environmental encyclical, in which the first pope from the Global South blasted the way wealthy countries and ...

The new Mass, Pro Custodia Creationis (For the Care of Creation), was initially ordered by Pope Francis, who made the environment a major theme of his papacy and the subject of his second ...

The Diocese of Knoxville will hold a special memorial mass for Pope Francis at 6 p.m. April 28 at Sacred Heart Cathedral.

The professors have raised concerns about what they say was confusion and ambiguity caused by some of the late pope's actions ...

Pope Leo, whose role in advocating for peace in Gaza has become notably stark since Israel struck the territory's only ...

In one of his most controversial acts, Francis in 2021 reversed Pope Benedict XVI’s signature liturgical legacy and restricted access for ordinary Catholics to the old Latin Mass.