Almost a decade ago, award-winning film director Paolo Sorrentino launched his first series, with Jude Law playing the first pope from the US. Is reality now catching up with fiction?

Over the past 60 years, dialogue turned to action for the common good and the sake of deep and trusting friendship between ...

Pope Leo holds first Vatican press conference after pleading ‘no more war’ - ...

Robert Francis Prevost was a relatively low-profile cardinal from Chicago. But on May 8, the 69-year-old stunned the world ...

Leo XIV launches his first week as leader of the world's Roman Catholics on Monday, with journalists, diplomats and top Vatican officials all set to meet with the newly elected pontiff.  Follow the ...

The newly elected Pope Leo XIV has revealed that artificial intelligence played a significant role in shaping his papal vision, including the very name he chose to lead the Catholic Church. The former ...

Albanese, a practicing Catholic, said it was an incredible honour to be attending Pope Leo XIV’s Mass of Inauguration in St Peter’s Square on Sunday. An estimated 200,000 people attended Pope Francis’ ...

At a time when American Catholics faced many restrictions, Washington went out of his way to make them feel included in the ...

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When white smoke curled into the Roman sky and the world learned that the College of Cardinals had elected Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost, Pope Leo XIV--an American--it was met with mixed emotions ...

Pope Leo XIV is set to give the first news conference of his pontificate, a day after his inaugural Sunday address.