ROME — Pope Leo XIV asked Sunday for prayers for China’s Catholics to be in communion with the Holy See, as he made his first ...

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Pope Leo the first American pope recalled that the Catholic Church had marked a special feast day on Saturday to pray for the ...

Pope Leo XIV asked Sunday for prayers for China’s Catholics to be in communion with the Holy See, as he made his first public ...

The conclave of May 7–8 has yet to reveal all its secrets. But two weeks after the election of Leo XIV, our reporters in Rome ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A quiet alliance between North and South American cardinals helped elect the first US-born pope.

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"Even though we didn’t actually see the smoke or see the new pope, the feeling of being there, it was in everybody's heart.