Full USA TODAY coverage of Pope Leo XIV, the head of the Catholic Church and the first pope from the United States.

Pope Leo XIV planned a mass in his hometown on the same day that President Donald Trump is holding a 250th anniversary parade ...

While I am shocked that the Lord has asked me to be a bishop, I must admit that knowing the people of this diocese brings me ...

Pope Leo XIV has met with members of the Vatican’s child protection advisory commission for the first time amid questions ...

Even when it seems we are able to do little in life, it is always worthwhile. There is always the possibility to find meaning ...

Pope Leo XIV’s hometown of Chicago will celebrate the election of one of its own as leader of the Catholic Church.

Pope Leo XIV's prayer intention for June, a month devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, is "that the world might grow in ...

The video also includes an original prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to which the month of June is dedicated.

Leo XIII is known as the social justice pope because of encyclical, Rerum Novarum. This “Magna Carta of Social Justice” was ...

How will Leo’s formative three decades in the United States before life in Peru and Rome shape his church of 1.4 billion souls? Yes, the cardinals must be thinking an American could solve the Holy See ...

In the Holy Father’s message he said the Church needs to be farsighted in discerning the needs of parents and children often ...

Pope Leo XIV gave the following homily on Sunday, June 1, for the Jubilee of Families, Children, Grandparents, and the ...