The first American pope said he quickly found his footing as a pastor for the universal Catholic Church but discovered the diplomatic job of being pope was more challenging.

It was about 20 years ago that Jack Valero, who runs the communications office of the Catholic organisation Opus Dei, started to notice that he was getting more people contacting him about it. Some of them were journalists,

Pope Leo has instructed the Catholic Church's newest bishops to confront sexual abuse by priests and not to hide allegations of misconduct, in a text released by the Vatican on Friday. Sexual abuse scandals have afflicted the Church in various places around the world in recent decades,

Pope Leo XIV led an ecumenical commemoration of the martyrs and witnesses of faith of the 21st century at Rome’s Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, stressing that “even though they have been killed in body,

The pontiff, born in Chicago and raised in south suburban Dolton, received a special treat as he entered a new decade. New video on Sunday morning shows a Portillo's chocolate cake being brought to the pope to commemorate his first birthday as head of the Catholic Church.

The canonization of Carlo Acutis, who died in 2006 at age 15, comes as the church is trying to reach more young people, including Gen Z and Gen Alpha.

Pope Leo, in his first interview since assuming the papacy, discussed Tesla's proposed pay package for Elon Musk and growing global wealth inequality.