The Catholic Church leader is also linked to Angelina Jolie and Hillary Clinton, according to The New York Times.

Madonna, who was raised Catholic and has Italian heritage, has referenced her rocky relationship with the Church numerous ...

Through a distant maternal ancestor, who was born in the 1590s, Pope Leo is ninth cousins, various times removed, with some ...

A new AP-NORC poll finds that just over a month after Pope Leo XIV became the first U.S.-born pontiff, American Catholics are ...

It has been nearly a month since Pope Leo XIV was elected head of the Catholic Church, and he has already been leaving an ...

Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals.

In his first words directed specifically to Americans, Pope Leo XIV told young people on Saturday how to find hope and ...

Pope Leo XIV met with U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres during a private audience at the Vatican June 11. The meeting ...

Pope Leo has returned to the tradition of awarding bonuses to Vatican employees for their work in the weeks following the ...

Victor Mooney, a 59-year-old Catholic from New York, has embarked on a 1,000-kilometre cycling journey across Poland in ...

The Vatican wanted a complete makeover of the vatican.va website. The catch was it had to be ready to launch with the ...

Inspired by Pope Francis’ five-day pilgrimage to Poland in 2016 and the country's historical ties to the Holocaust, Victor Mooney boarded a flight to Warsaw.