At age 47, Bishop-designate Thomas Hennen will be the youngest bishop leading a U.S. diocese. Hennen's ministry to LGBTQ+ ...

Leo will continue his predecessor's historic decision allowing priests to honor queer couples, though same-sex marriage ...

Pope Leo XIV won’t reverse the Vatican’s former policy on same-sex blessings, despite ongoing criticism from conservative bishops.

Pope Francis welcomed the LGBT community into the Catholic Church. What will his successor mean for the community?

Thomas Hennen’s ministry in the Diocese of Davenport, Iowa, signaled he backs current Catholic Church teaching on LGBTQ+ ...

The Catholic Church has welcomed its first American pope, Pope Leo XIV, sparking global interest in how he will tackle sensitive topics like LGBTQ rights, political figures like Donald Trump, and ...

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 ...

When Henry Louis Gates Jr. set out to trace the family tree of America’s first pope, he had no idea he was about to uncover […] ...

Pope Leo XIV is also enacting a plan to build a solar farm that would make Vatican City the world’s first carbon-neutral ...

Pope Leo XIV is signalling his commitment to continuing the fight against clergy sexual abuse. He has appointed a French ...

Pope Leo XIV is marking a feast day as the Vatican launches a new campaign to boost donations from the faithful. Leo ...

During the celebration, Pope Leo XIV revived the ancient tradition of personally imposing the pallium on new metropolitan archbishops.