For years before becoming Pope Leo XIV — as a parish priest and then bishop in Peru — Robert Prevost built ties with ...

The death of Pope Francis has ignited widespread online curiosity about the process of electing the next leader of the ...

Many Indigenous Catholics saw an ally in Pope Francis who championed their causes, asked forgiveness for the church’s ...

In his final Easter message, Pope Francis expressed pain over the violence and division throughout our world and urged us to ...

Every pope brings a distinct vision and agenda for leading the church. Making change is difficult in the Catholic Church, but ...

The bishop sat quietly near the front row, hands folded, listening as Indigenous leaders and church workers spoke about the ...

Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions ...

Where do you see the influence of Pope Francis’ Latin American background?

Most stories about Pope Francis mention that he made history as ... lives of Native peoples from across the nine countries of the Amazon. During the papal Mass Francis celebrated in Chiapas ...

“But Pope Francis, precisely because he was Latino ... An emblematic moment came in 2019, at the Amazon synod in Rome. One of its central questions was the plummeting numbers of Catholics ...

Pope Leo XIV could bring big change to the Catholic Church – here’s how Francis set the stage - Francis had begun making ...

Pope Francis was the fiercest climate and environment ... In 2018, the pope made his first visit to the Amazon in Peru, where he called on industry to end its destruction of the vast biome ...