ROME—Pope Francis remained in critical condition Sunday and blood tests showed early kidney failure but he remains alert, ...

Pope Leo XIV has delved into his family history, revealing his ancestry included both enslaved people and slave owners. “I come from a family that my grandparents were immigrants,” the first American ...

(RNS) — Modern popes tend to stay out of partisan politics, but when Leo speaks, he certainly sounds like a Democratic Socialist. (RNS) — President Donald Trump has attacked Pope Leo for defending ...

Pope Leo XIV called on the faithful to pray for those battling wildfires across southwestern Europe on Sunday. Fires in France and Spain have killed at least one person – in Valencia, Spain – and ...

If the Bears are still looking for a spot to build their new stadium, they might want to consider Vatican City. For the first time in history, the Vatican is being led by an American-born pope, and he ...

Polls now show President Trump sinking deep into disapproval with voters outside his far-right base. In Fox polls he has 61 percent disapproval from voters. Trump is in negative territory on the war ...

Using a portable sensor, the technology analyzes exhaled biomarkers to detect lung conditions without a lab test or chest x-ray. With a test being developed at MIT, diagnosing pneumonia and other lung ...

Instead of asking 'Does this patient have pneumonia?' we should be asking 'What's the inflammatory pattern in this patient's lungs?'" In findings published in Nature Communications, Conway Morris and ...

Pope Leo XIV used a visit Saturday honoring St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, the first American saint and patron saint of immigrants, to deliver his latest appeal on behalf of them, asking Catholics to ...

In all six Latin American countries we surveyed in 2026, a majority of Catholics express a favorable opinion of Pope Leo XIV. Some of the most positive views are in Peru, where 79% of Catholics look ...

About eight-in-ten U.S. Catholics (78%) have a favorable view of Pope Leo XIV, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. That’s down slightly from summer 2025, when 84% of U.S. Catholics ...