Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S.-born pope, became a rare case of an American citizen serving as a foreign head of state.

To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the historian R.W. Southern once offered ...

Pope Leo XIV's record handling sex abuse cases while he was an Augustinian superior and bishop in Peru has come under renewed ...

This week, a popular South County eatery was severely damaged by a fire, a verdict was reached in the Aaron Thomas trial, an ...

Vice President JD Vance spoke with Ross Douthat on his "Interesting Times" podcast after meeting with the new pope.

Four students from Los Angeles-area Catholic high schools will visit the Vatican to participate in a memorial service for Pope Francis while hoping to meet the new head of the Catholic Church, the Los ...

Hundreds of thousands of people gathered for Pope Francis' funeral on Saturday in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. Francis died on April 21 at the age of 88 after 12 years at the head of the ...

An open-topped popemobile carrying Pope Leo XIV drove through St Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sunday morning, ahead of ...

NBC News earlier reported that the two top ... Vance, who is Catholic, met briefly with Pope Francis before his death last month. The vice president, Rubio and second lady Usha Vance will be ...

It was in the 2013 audience with journalists who covered the election of history’s first Latin American pope that Pope Francis explained his choice of name, after St. Francis of Assisi, and his desire ...

Leo's predecessor, Pope Francis, also declined to take questions ... this for a long time because he's not nervous," he told NBC News' Lester Holt. "It does seem like he was made for this role ...

Pope Leo XIV called for a genuine and just peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, in his first Sunday noon blessing as pontiff that featured some symbolic gestures suggesting a ...