Alb: A long white linen vestment with sleeves, it symbolizes the purity of heart that the priest brings to the altar.

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

Abuse experts and survivors express a mix of tentative hopes and low expectations for how Pope Leo might address disciplining ...

Pope Leo XIV met with the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors (PCPM ... Church has made significant strides in protecting children by mandating and enforcing background checks ...

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

Sunday, Pope Leo XIV prayed that the Holy Spirit would "open borders, break down walls" and dissolve hatred so everyone can ...

The Holy Spirit "writes in our hearts before all else the commandment of love that the Lord has made the center and summit of ...

Pope Leo XIV will canonize Blessed Carlo Acutis on Sept. 7. A gamer and computer coder who loved the Eucharist, Acutis will be the first millennial Catholic saint.

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope ... in Ukraine and offered prayers for the people of Gaza — children, families and elderly who are “reduced to starvation ...

While much was done during Pope Francis' pontificate to tackle the global abuse crisis -- a crisis moving at differing speeds in the church, depending on the country -- one significant e ...

Iran and Israel exchanged more airstrikes overnight Friday and continuing late Saturday after Israel mainly attacked Iranian ...