Trump's rift with Pope is playing out in public - it's costing him valuable support

When asked about Trump's attack on Pope Leo and the image some have referred to as "AI Jesus", which Trump said he thought ...

What is Donald Trump's approval rating? Pope attacks drew backlash

President Donald Trump has had a historically low approval rating for about a year. Now, he is going after Pope Leo. What do ...
Fox News

Pope Leo XIV opens 2026 urging world to reject violence in powerful New Year's Day message

Pope Leo XIV opened the new year Thursday with an appeal to the world for peace and urging people everywhere to begin 2026 by rejecting violence and committing to reconciliation. Speaking during his ...
National Catholic Reporter

A new pope, legacy of Francis: NCR's top 10 news stories of 2025

The story that dominated the Catholic news headlines in 2025 was, of course, the death of Pope Francis and the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV. These were NCR's most read — not necessarily the ...

Pope Leo speaks a moral language. Trump can't understand it | Opinion

President Donald Trump, reacting publicly to Pope Leo XIV, was no match for the Roman Catholic leader's moral argument for ...
National Catholic Register

Before Becoming Bishop, Pope Leo Kept an All-Night Vigil With This Saint

On the eve of his ordination in Chiclayo, the future Pope traveled to a small town in northern Peru to pray before a relic of St. Turibius of Mogrovejo, a missionary bishop whose example would shape ...
America Magazine

Pope Leo in Christmas address to Vatican officials asks: ‘Is it possible to be friends in the Roman Curia?’

Pope Leo XIV reads his speech to officials of the Roman Curia and the College of Cardinals during his annual pre-Christmas meeting with them in the Hall of Blessing above the atrium of St. Peter's ...
National Catholic Reporter

Pope charts 2026 travel with sweeping Africa tour, visits to Spain, Monaco

Nearly a year into a pontificate largely anchored in Rome, Pope Leo XIV is preparing to launch a sweeping series of international trips that will carry him across Africa, to Spain and to the tiny ...
National Catholic Register

Pope Leo Walks the ‘Early Francis’ Path — With a New Approach

The direction of the Leonine pontificate is still not yet clear, but the consistory of cardinals last week gave some further indications. Pope Leo XIV intends to continue in the direction of his ...
Chicago Sun-Times

How the election of Pope Leo XIV brought a former Sun-Times religion writer back

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America Magazine

Pope Leo on Ash Wednesday: It’s ‘rare to find adults who repent’

Pope Leo XIV swings a censer near the altar as celebrates Ash Wednesday Mass at Santa Sabina Basilica in Rome Feb. 18, 2026. Credit: OSV News photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters ROME (OSV News) — Beneath ...

Pope demands the ‘chains of corruption’ be broken as he arrives in Cameroon

Pope Leo XIV arrived Wednesday in the central African nation of Cameroon with a message of peace for its separatist region ...