During a papal audience with 6,000 fans, alumni and athletes the day before game day, Pope Leo dribbled a golden basketball in the Vatican's Paul VI Hall.

In casting his ballot, Pope Leo became not only the first pope to vote in a U.S. election, but also provided what some observers called a timely moral witness.

A federal appeals court panel ruled Idaho's abortion ban may continue to be fully enforced as voters in the Gem State prepared to vote directly on the law.

Archbishop Alarcón spent his first year in Cusco traveling the diocese, which includes urban areas, remote mountain villages and a jungle region.

Standing on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica in May 2025, Pope Leo XIV addressed Catholics around the world with a message of peace and a call for Christians to "journey together toward the ...