The press conference on the plane returning from Africa provided the first sign of Leo XIV’s notable break with Pope Francis’s pontificate.

When asked specifically about the decision of Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Archbishop Emeritus of Munich, to formally bless same-sex couples, Leo XIV said the Holy See had already informed the German bishops [...]

The first anniversary of Pope Francis’s death will pass with his successor, Pope Leo XIV, in Africa.

Leo has been in Africa since April 13, on a journey taking him to Algeria, Cameroon, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea. On the eve of his departure, however, a letter Leo XIV sent to the cardinals in [...]

On March 28, two weeks after his appointment as Archbishop of Lodz, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski took possession of his see, fulfilling his promise to ensure that a bishop would lead the diocese by Easter.

A week after his appointment as Deputy Secretary of State, Archbishop Paolo Rudelli promptly arrived at the Vatican, where he [...]

Leo XIV personally carried the Cross through all the fourteen Stations of the Cross at the Colosseum on Good Friday.

It was a powerful gesture, not only in that it showed a pontiff hale and hoary—like John Paul II early in his pontificate, and also Paul VI, who established the tradition of the Way [...]