Pope Leo XIV held his first public audience with members ... of imprisoned journalists before the 2023 start of the war in Gaza. It made the list, according to the CPJ, as it has tried to silence ...

Political figures around the world have congratulated Robert Francis Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, after his election on Thursday, May 8, as Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. Hailing from Chicago and a dual U.

The Rev. John T. Pawlikowski served as co-founder and director of the school’s Catholic-Jewish Studies Program and also served four terms on the board of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The Catholic office overseeing the Gaza church with which the late Pope Francis communicated daily has shared with Newsweek a message following the selection of a new pontiff in the midst of the ongoing war.

How will Pope Leo XIV confront global crisis? - The world receives a message of ‘peace and justice’ from the Vatican amid global turmoil and a long shadow of abuse in the church

Some conservatives and traditionalist Catholics are cautiously optimistic over the historic election of Pope Leo XIV