The head of Latin America’s top development bank has made a case to Pope Leo XIV about the potential of rare earth mining.

Pope Leo XIV holding up America's first saint, Mother Frances Cabrini, as a model for Christians today because of her care for migrants in need.

Pope Leo XIV shared a touching moment with a 7-year-old boy, captured by AP photographer Emilio Morenatti.

Pope Leo XIV is warning human traffickers that they will face God’s wrath for exploiting the desperation of migrants.

Pope Leo XIV has traveled to the Canary Islands, an epicenter of the European migration debate.

Pope Leo XIV has celebrated the Sagrada Familia Basilica as a masterpiece of “stones, colors and light.”.

A group of more than 130 people in Barcelona gave a unique welcome to Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday night by forming a human tower.

Pope Leo XIV is presiding over a youth rally in Barcelona.

Pope Leo XIV will bridge 1,000 years of church history Wednesday when he visits a medieval monastery on a mountaintop that local Catholics consider sacred and then celebrates Mass at Barcelona’s famous Sagrada Familia Basilica.

Spain's lawmakers have given Pope Leo XIV a lengthy standing ovation after his historic address to parliament.

Pope Leo XIV has challenged Europe to acknowledge Christianity’s contributions to its cultural identity.

Pope Leo XIV’s weeklong visit to Spain will bring him to a once-staunchly Catholic country that has long been in the throes of waning religious practice.

Pope Leo XIV has visited families near Naples affected by illegal toxic dumping linked to the mafia.

Pope Leo XIV and Anthropic's co-founder Christopher Olah are set to launch the pontiff’s first encyclical on May 25.

Pope Leo XIV has created a study group on artificial intelligence in a sign of his ongoing concern about the technology.

Pope Leo XIV has denounced investments in AI and high-tech weaponry, warning they lead to a “spiral of annihilation.”.

The Vatican says the “need to work tirelessly in favor of peace” was discussed in talks with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Pope Leo XIV will inaugurate the central tower of Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia basilica during his visit to Spain next month.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Rome and Vatican City this week in a bid to ease rising tensions between President Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV over U.S. policies, particularly the Iran war.

Pope Leo XIV is urging the United States and Iran to return to talks to end the war.

Pope Leo XIV is urging Equatorial Guineans to work for freedom, justice and to close the gap “between the privileged and the disadvantaged.”.

Pope Leo XIV has traveled to pray at a popular Catholic shrine in Angola that was an epicenter of the African slave trade.

Pope Leo XIV says it is “not in my interest at all” to debate U.S. President Donald Trump about the war in Iran but that he will continue preaching the Gospel message of peace.

Pope Leo XIV is encouraging young people in Cameroon to resist the temptation to migrate and to stay at home and fight corruption.

Pope Leo XIV has condemned the “handful of tyrants” exploiting Earth through war and greed.

Pope Leo XIV's trip to Africa has been marked by an unusual dynamic with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Human Rights Watch, in a detailed new report, says Chinese authorities are increasing pressure on underground Catholic communities to join the state-controlled official church while tightening surveillance and travel restrictions on all of China’s estimated 12 million Catholics.

Pope Leo XIV has arrived in the central African nation of Cameroon on the second leg of his Africa tour.

Pope Leo XIV has walked in the footsteps of his spiritual father St. Augustine.

Pope Leo XIV has arrived in Algeria for a first-ever papal visit, calling for peace amid the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.

Pope Leo XIV has denounced the “delusion of omnipotence” that is fueling the U.S.-Israel war in Iran and demanded political leaders stop and negotiate peace.

Pope Leo XIV’s trip to Africa is so dizzying in its complexity it recalls some of the early globe-trotting odysseys of St. John Paul II.

Pope Leo XIV has celebrated his first Easter Mass as pontiff, urging peace through dialogue and calling for an end to conflicts worldwide.

Pope Leo XIV carried a wooden cross for all 14 stations of the Way of the Cross at the Colosseum on his first Good Friday as pontiff.

Pope Leo XIV says no one can use God to justify war and he's praying especially for Christians in the Middle East.

Pope Leo XIV has urged the people of Monaco to use their Catholic faith and wealth for good.

The Vatican appeals tribunal has declared a mistrial in the Holy See’s big “trial of the century.”.

Pope Leo XIV says a Chaldean Catholic bishop has resigned after he was arrested while trying to leave the U.S. following accusations that he embezzled $270,000 from his parish near San Diego.

Pope Leo XIV has opened the church’s penitential Lenten season by presiding over Ash Wednesday.

The Vatican has warned a breakaway traditionalist Catholic group that it risked renewed schism if it goes ahead with plans to consecrate new bishops without papal consent.

Pope Leo XIV has baptized 20 babies in the Sistine Chapel, continuing an annual tradition marking the end of the Christmas holiday at the Vatican.

Pope Leo XIV has denounced how nations are increasingly using force to assert their dominion worldwide.

The final pilgrims of the 2025 Holy Year have passed through the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica.

Pope Leo XIV has closed out 2025 with a prayer that the city of Rome might be a welcoming place for foreigners and fragile people young and old.

Pope Leo XIV, during his first Christmas Day message, has urged the faithful to shed indifference toward those who are suffering.

On Christmas Eve, thousands of people flocked to Bethlehem's Manger Square and other Holy Land sites, after two years of subdued Christmas celebrations because of the war in Gaza.

Pope Leo XIV says he's “very disappointed” that his home state of Illinois has approved medically assisted suicide.

Pope Leo XIV has summoned the world’s cardinals for meetings to help him govern the church, marking the unofficial start of his pontificate.

Pope Leo XIV has made another high-profile appointment that signals a generational shift in the English-speaking Catholic hierarchy.

Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered a significant fresco of Jesus as the "Good Shepherd" from Anatolia's early Christian era.

The “Architects of AI” were named Time magazine’s person of the year for 2025.

Pope Leo XIV is insisting that Europe must have a role in any Ukraine peace deal.

Pope Leo XIV embraces a Roman tradition by praying for peace at a statue of the Madonna near the Spanish Steps.

Pope Leo XIV has taken his biggest step yet to correct one of Pope Francis’ more problematic financial moves.

Pope Leo XIV has prayed at the site of the 2020 Beirut port explosion, urging justice for the 218 victims.

Pope Leo XIV has celebrated Lebanon's tradition of interfaith coexistence as a beacon of hope for a conflict-torn region.

Pope Leo XIV has doubled down on the Holy See’s insistence on a two-state solution to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Pope Leo XIV has challenged Lebanon’s political leaders to be true peacemakers and put their differences aside.

Airlines around the world canceled and delayed flights heading into the weekend to fix software on a widely used commercial plane after an analysis found computer code may have contributed to a sudden drop in the altitude of a JetBlue aircraft last month.

Pope Leo XIV has visited Istanbul’s Blue Mosque without praying there as he focused on strengthening ties with Orthodox patriarchs.

Pope Leo XIV has marked a significant moment in his first foreign trip to Turkey by visiting the site of the historic Council of Nicaea.

Israeli forces killed a pair of Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank after they appeared to surrender to troops, drawing Palestinian accusations that the men were executed “in cold blood.”.

Pope Leo XIV is encouraging Turkey to be a source of stability and dialogue in a world riven by conflict.

Pope Leo XIV is embarking on his first foreign trip.

Pope Leo XIV is set to embark on his first trip abroad with a visit to Turkey, marking a key event in Catholic and Orthodox Christianity.

Israel has struck Lebanon’s capital for the first time since June, saying it killed Hezbollah’s chief of staff and warning the Iran-backed militant group not to rearm and rebuild.

Pope Leo XIV has revealed a closely held secret: He uses a different Wordle start word each day.

Ukraine has asked the Vatican to formalize its role facilitating negotiations for the return of Ukrainian children and civilians taken by Russia during the war.

Pope Leo XIV has strongly backed U.S. bishops who condemned the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Pope Leo XIV is urging countries at United Nations climate talks to take “concrete actions” to stop climate change that is threatening the planet.

Pope Leo XIV has welcomed Spike Lee, Cate Blanchett, Greta Gerwig and dozens of other Hollywood luminaries to a special Vatican audience.

The Vatican has launched an investigation into a possible antisemitic incident involving a Swiss Guard.

A top American cardinal has celebrated a traditional Latin Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica with the explicit permission of Pope Leo XIV.

Pope Leo XIV has canonized Venezuela's “doctor of the poor” before tens of thousands of people.

Pope Leo XIV has denounced the use of hunger as a weapon of war during an address to a U.N. agency.

The Vatican’s child protection board says the Catholic Church has a moral duty to help victims of clergy sexual abuse heal.

Pope Leo XIV has urged labor union leaders from Chicago to advocate for immigrants and welcome minorities into their ranks.

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

Pope Leo XIV will visit Turkey and Lebanon next month on his first foreign trip as pope.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has asked Pope Leo XIV to help maintain peace in Venezuela.

Pope Leo XIV has begun correcting some of Pope Francis’ more questionable financial reforms and decisions.

Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church.

Pope Leo XIV has named a successor to the embattled archbishop of New Orleans two weeks after the archdiocese agreed to a $230 million settlement for survivors of clergy sexual abuse.

The mother of James Foley, the American journalist kidnapped and beheaded by Islamic militants in Syria in 2014, has told her story of loss and healing at a Vatican vigil attended by Pope Leo XIV.

Pope Leo XIV has declared a 15-year-old computer whiz the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint.

Pope Leo XIV will preside over his first canonization ceremony Sunday to create the first millennial saint.

Search teams have recovered around 100 bodies from a remote village in Sudan's Darfur region after a landslide devastated the area over the weekend.

Pope Leo XIV has demanded an end to the “pandemic of arms” during a public prayer for victims of a shooting at a Catholic school Mass in the United States.

Pope Leo XIV is demanding that Israel stop the “collective punishment” and forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza.

Pope Leo XIV has affirmed the right of people to return to their homes after an unjust exile.

Pope Leo XIV has told over a million Catholic youths they are a sign that a different world is possible.

Pope Leo XIV urges young people to make radical choices for good during a major event in Rome.

Pope Leo XIV has surprised tens of thousands of young Catholics by showing up unexpectedly at a Holy Year welcome ceremony.

Pope Leo XIV has renewed his call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

Top church leaders have visited Gaza after its only Catholic church was struck by an Israeli shell the day before.

As Texas grapples with the aftermath of devastating floods, nearly 60 lives have been lost, and 11 people remain missing. Governor Greg Abbott has declared this Sunday a day of prayer, urging Texans to come together in hope and solidarity.

Pope Leo XIV is signalling his commitment to continuing the fight against clergy sexual abuse.

Pope Leo XIV is starting a six-week vacation this weekend at the papal summer retreat south of Rome.

As the floodwaters recede from Camp Mystic, a torrent of grief remains for the families of the children who died and those who went missing when flash floods tore through central Texas earlier this week.

Pope Leo XIV is marking a feast day as the Vatican launches a new campaign to boost donations from the faithful.