Pope Leo XIV has opened the church’s penitential Lenten season by presiding over Ash Wednesday. He is lamenting the “ashes of ...

Pope Leo XIV has joined the U.S.’s long-standing allies in turning down an invitation to join President Donald Trump’s ...

Pope Leo XIV opened the Catholic church’s penitential Lenten season by presiding over the Ash Wednesday Mass in Rome.

During his first Ash Wednesday as pope, Leo framed Lent as a communal reckoning with personal and structural sin.

VATICAN CITY, Feb 18 (Reuters) - ⁠Pope ⁠Leo lamented a world "in ⁠flames" due to wars and the destruction of ​the environment ...

Trump’s Board of Peace has drawn limited international backing, with the Vatican and key Western allies declining to join.

On Ash Wednesday, Pope Leo XIV encouraged Catholics to ask the Lord for “the gift of true conversion” at the start of the ...

How rare it is to find adults who repent — individuals, businesses and institutions that admit they have done wrong,” Pope Leo said in his homily in the Basilica of Santa Sabina.

A new pope's first Lent offers a glimpse into his pastoral instincts and how he situates himself in relation to his ...

In his homily, the Pope urged Catholics to treat Lent as a time when the Church is renewed as a true community, even as modern society finds it harder to come together in communion.

Pope Leo XIV said the successor of Peter must retain “complete freedom to speak the truth, denounce injustice, defend the rights of the weakest, promote peace,” and proclaim Jesus Christ amid “the ...

Pope Leo XIV led Ash Wednesday services, expressing concerns over the decline of international law amid current conflicts, while reinstating traditional rituals.