Amid renewed tensions between the Vatican and traditionalist Catholics over the teachings of the Second Vatican Council, Pope Leo XIV defended Church reform as a legitimate process that adapts to current needs while remaining rooted in authentic tradition.

Leo and 33-year-old atheist tech leader Christopher Olah made an unlikely duo in championing a partnership between the Catholic Church and the tech industry to develop safeguards for the precarious development of AI.

The SSPX has said it will proceed with consecrations, despite a Vatican warning that it would constitute a “schismatic act.”

The Vatican is sending new signals about how it intends to minister to LGBTQ+ Catholics in the Pope Leo XIV era.

The church's delayed moral development on the issue of slavery constitutes "a wound in Christian memory, one from which we cannot consider ourselves detached," Leo XIV wrote in Magnifica Humanitas.

American priest Michael Goldade is among the four men at the center of Pope Leo's clash with the breakaway Society of St. Pius X.

The Vatican's recent document on human dignity shows that the Catholic Church transcends secular ideas of "left" and "right," America's most popular bishop says. Bishop Robert Barron of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester said the Catholic Church's release ...

Pope Leo isn't the first leader of the Catholic Church to acknowledge chattel slavery's dark past, but the Chicago-born pope just took things much farther.

For centuries, the Catholic Church didn't just stay silent on slavery — it helped authorize it. A pope finally said so out loud.

Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology on Monday for the Holy See’s role in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the Vatican’s record a “wound in Christian memory.