Pope Leo XIV
Pope Leo’s cancer surgery early in his papacy sends shockwaves through the Catholic Church
ROME — Inside Rome’s Gemelli hospital, doctors removed a cancerous nodule from the lung of the spiritual leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics.
Pope Leo spends a peaceful night in the hospital after cancer surgery
Pope Leo XIV spent a calm night in the hospital after successful surgery that saw part of his right lung removed and a confirmed cancer diagnosis, the Vatican said early Wednesday.
Pope Leo says he will undergo surgery to remove a nodule on his lung
Pope Leo XIV announced Sunday that he will undergo surgery to remove an early-stage nodule on his lung.
Pope Leo draws vast crowds in Paris, warns of AI ‘paradise of machines’
PARIS — Pope Leo XIV encouraged French Catholics on Saturday to persevere in their faith “even amid the thorns” of a secular world, rallying the faithful ahead of a huge Mass at the iconic Place de la Concorde that shut down central Paris.
Pope Leo champions free press, dodges White Sox miracle question
Pope Leo XIV said Friday he welcomes journalists to chronicle his travels, in sharp contrast to President Donald Trump, who recently kicked three news outlets out of the White House before having to undo that ban.
A future pope will ‘welcome us back’, says priest from excommunicated Catholic sect
ZURICH — A priest from a Catholic splinter sect that was excommunicated earlier this week told worshippers on Sunday that the breakaway group would be welcomed back to the Church under a different pope.
Pope Leo calls on U.S. to protect immigrants in message marking America’s 250th birthday
Pope Leo marked the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence on Saturday with an appeal to Americans to welcome and protect immigrants, in a letter sent to his home country as he visited Italy’s migrant frontline island of Lampedusa.
Pope begs breakaway traditionalist group to back off plan to consecrate its own bishops
Pope Leo XIV begged a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics to call off its plan to consecrate new bishops without his consent, calling the move a schismatic act and a “sin of extreme gravity.”
Gandalf, Picasso and MLK: Cultural references ground Pope Leo’s AI warning
It took a little over a year for Pope Leo XIV to write more than 42,000 words of his first encyclical, which deals with the safeguarding of human dignity in the age of artificial intelligence.
Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See’s own role in legitimizing slavery
Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology on Monday for the role the Holy See itself played in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the Vatican’s record a “wound in Christian memory.”Past popes have apologized for Christians’ involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.