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

Pope Leo XIV has hands-on experience of navigating the Amazon. Many Catholics have said they believe Prevost’s experience as ...

As the Trump administration dismantles climate action and cuts funding to Indigenous peoples around the world — and far-right ...

a part of the Amazon rain forest. It was 2016, a year after Laudato Si, Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment. When he was up to speak, the bishop didn’t preach though he was in his city ...

(L’Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP File) Pope Francis leaves after celebrating an opening Mass for the Amazon synod, in St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, Oct. 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew ...

Pope Leo XIV, then Apostolic Administrator of Chiclayo Robert Prevost, preaches during a Corpus Christi celebration in a stadium in Chiclayo, Peru, Friday, June 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Julio Reano) ...

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

European pope in centuries, Francis was especially aware of colonialism’s impact and the need to embrace many cultures within ...

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

Although estranged from his own religious order for more than two decades, Pope Francis reconciled immediately after his ...

Every pope has his critics. But Pope Francis’ conservative opponents were unique in that they actually had a living alternate ...