Pope Leo on Monday defended his decision to vocally oppose ​assisted dying initiatives while in France, acknowledging he may ‌have entered the political fray two months after the country approved such...

Pope Leo on Monday urged Russia and Ukraine to sit down and discuss ​how to end their four-year war, hours after ‌he had urged European leaders seeking to end conflicts to make concessions to achieve ...

Pope Leo on Monday said concerns that artificial intelligence could destroy the ​world are not "fake news" and should be taken seriously, in an apparent ‌rebuke of US President Donald Trump.

Pope Leo on Sunday urged the Catholic Church to admit its own ​failings and heal "deep wounds" inflicted within its ranks, hours before he was set to meet victims of child abuse by priests in France.

Crowds stretched the length of ​the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris on Saturday, as Pope Leo urged Catholics to find happiness in faith, not material things, at the ‌biggest event of his visit to F...

Pope Leo's beloved Chicago White Sox may have pulled off ​a miracle this year, making Major League Baseball's playoffs ‌for the first time since 2021. But the longtime fan of the South Siders won't re...

Pope Leo said ​on Friday that the United Nations and other multilateral groups were in crisis, warning in a speech at the Paris headquarters of the UN culture and education body, ‌UNESCO, that interna...

Asked about U.S. President Donald ​Trump's decision to bar CNN ‌and several other outlets from the White House, Pope Leo on Friday reaffirmed ​his support for freedom of ​the press.

The Vatican warned about the risk of an apocalypse spurred by artificial ​intelligence years before major American firms sounded the alarm at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday - a conce...

Pope Leo lamented on Wednesday conditions suffered by migrant ​and refugee children and urged global ‌action to protect young people fleeing their home countries in search of safety.

Pope Leo heads to France on Friday for the first formal visit by a pope in nearly 20 ​years, which Catholic leaders hope will repair the Church's standing after a crushing 2021 report on child abuse b...

A senior Vatican official urged an end to the Ukraine war after meeting in Moscow on Tuesday with Russian Foreign Minister ​Sergey Lavrov in the first in-person talks between ​Vatican and Russian offi...

Pope Leo marked the 250th anniversary of U.S. ​independence on Saturday with an appeal to Americans to welcome and protect immigrants, in a letter sent to his home country as he visited ‌Italy's migra...

Pope Leo ​praised the United States' history of welcoming ‌immigrants in his first major address to his home country on Friday, urging in a video ​appearance that Americans live up to the ​ideals put ...

Pope Leo said during his inaugural Mass last year that he would seek to unify the Catholic Church after years of ​fraught divisions and vowed he would not rule like an autocrat over its 1.4 billion me...

The Vatican on Tuesday reaffirmed a long-standing rule that only an ordained priest or ​deacon can give a sermon at a Catholic mass, ‌rejecting a request from German bishops to broaden the practice an...

World leaders are "feeding" wars instead of the hungry, Pope Leo ‌said on Monday, telling the U.N. food aid agency that global priorities were badly skewed.

Pope Leo on Tuesday praised the interim ​deal between the United States ‌and Iran to end the regional war in the Middle East, saying "thanks ​be to God" that ​the two powers are set to ⁠formalize thei...

Pope Leo boarded a Falcon jet offered by ​the King of Spain after a technical issue ‌grounded the larger papal plane on the island of Tenerife, delaying his return to the Vatican on Friday at ​the end...

Pope Leo on Friday issued a stern warning to human traffickers and criminal groups who exploit desperate migrants ​trying to reach Europe through Spain's Canary Islands, telling them to "repent" befor...

Pope Leo appealed to world leaders ​on Thursday to treat migrants more humanely, warning in a visit to Spain's Canary Islands, one of Europe's migration hotspots, that history would condemn those ‌who...

Pope Leo, who has forcefully advocated for the rights of prisoners, visited one of Spain's largest prisons on Wednesday, urging the ​inmates to make amends for their crimes and commit to living ‌bette...

Pope Leo had a brief private meeting with Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny at Madrid's ​Bernabeu stadium on Monday evening as both were ‌touring Spain, the Vatican said on Tuesday, adding that it did not...

Pope Leo's visit to Spain's Canary Islands, which have struggled to absorb a surge in irregular migration ​over the past decade, will focus attention on the treatment of migrants, local Catholic leade...

Pope Leo set off on Tuesday for the ‌second stop of his visit to Spain, flying from Madrid to Barcelona as part of a week-long tour in which he has warned that escalating conflicts have pushed the wor...

Pope ​Leo told Spain's Catholic bishops on Monday they ‌must listen to survivors of abuse by clergy and offer them reparations, in the first direct reference during his trip to ​scandals that have sha...

Pope Leo told Spain's parliament that escalating conflict, deepening polarization and widespread disregard for human ​rights had pushed the world into a profound crisis, in one of his most expansive p...

Over a million people filled the streets near one of ​Madrid's main squares on Sunday to join Pope Leo for an outdoor Mass, ‌likely to be the largest event of his week-long visit to Spain, where the p...

Pope Leo may have traded his life in Chicago for the ornate ​apartments at the Vatican's apostolic palace, but he ‌still plans to root for his old national team at the World Cup this month.

Pope Leo on Saturday urged global leaders to avoid dividing their ​electorates with "sterile simplifications" to gain popularity and called on them to listen to the world's cries for peace, in a force...

Pope Leo will meet with survivors ​of sexual abuse by Catholic ‌clergy during his week-long visit to Spain, the Vatican said ​on Friday.

Pope Leo heads to Spain on Saturday for a week-long tour, his first visit to an EU country outside Italy, which will ​culminate with the pontiff meeting migrants in the Canary Islands who braved dangerous Atlantic waters to enter Europe.

Pope Leo heads to Spain on Saturday for a week-long tour, his first visit to an EU country outside Italy, which will ​culminate with the pontiff meeting migrants in the Canary Islands who braved dange...

Pope Leo named an executive with U.S. Catholic media conglomerate EWTN ​as the new head of the ‌Vatican's communications department on Tuesday, in the first appointment of a woman to the senior Church...

Pope Leo this week repudiated a major teaching used by the Catholic Church since at ​least the fifth century to evaluate when countries might be justified in waging wars, in a move experts said could ...

Pope Leo on Wednesday ​decried what he called ‌a "sharp intensification" of the war in Ukraine, telling ​pilgrims at his weekly ​audience at the Vatican ⁠that he wanted ​to express closeness to civili...

Catholic popes have been urging global leaders to address social justice issues for 135 ​years across some two dozen major documents that many of the world's 1.4-billion-faithful can cite by their two...

Pope Leo issued his first major document on Monday, urging international regulation to slow down the development of AI systems, which he said spread misinformation and may lead the world down a path of unending war.

Pope Leo urged governments to slow down the development of AI systems in his first major document, released on Monday, warning that they spread misinformation, prioritise conflict and ​risk leading the world down a path of unending war.

Pope Leo urged governments to slow down the development of AI systems in his first major document, released on Monday, warning that they spread misinformation, prioritise conflict and ​risk leading th...

Pope Leo on Saturday called out companies who seek "dizzying" profits at the ‌cost of environmental pollution, on a visit to an area in Italy known as a hotbed for illegal dumping of toxic waste.

Pope Leo will release his ​first in-depth document, expected ‌to address the rise of artificial intelligence and challenges ​to workers' rights, ​on May 25, the Vatican ⁠announced on Monday.

Pope Leo will travel to France from September 25 to 28, the Vatican announced on Saturday, and will visit the Paris headquarters of UNESCO, which is facing budget shortfalls after the United States wi...

Pope Leo on Thursday decried rising European military spending, which grew ‌last year by the highest amount since the end of the Cold War amid pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump, saying it was a betrayal of diplomacy.

Pope Leo on Thursday decried rising European military spending, which grew ‌last year by the highest amount since the end of the Cold War amid pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump, saying it was ...

The Vatican on Wednesday urged a breakaway Catholic ​group dedicated to the old Latin mass to cancel plans to ordain new ‌bishops without consent from Pope Leo, warning the action would incur excommun...

A Vatican statement after Pope Leo's meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, which said the two had pledged to improve bilateral relations, ​was a recognition of unprecedented tensions, insi...

Pope Leo asked that God would inspire world leaders to calm global tensions and reduce hatred in an address ​on Friday to mark his first anniversary as head of the ‌Catholic Church, a day after he met...

Pope Leo and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio ​jointly committed at a meeting on Thursday to improving relations between the Vatican and Washington, at a time when President Donald Trumphas repeate...

Pope Leowelcomed U.S. Secretary of ​State Marco Rubio to the Vatican on Thursday for talks at a time when President Donald Trump's repeated attacks on the pontiff over the Iran warhave created ‌unprec...