ROME — Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church by raising the seeming contradiction over what it really means to be “pro-life.” Leo, a ...

Pope Leo XIV has weighed in on US politics for the first time in his papacy, commenting on Thursday on hot issues roiling the domestic political scene, from abortion to immigration. The first US-born ...

When Pope Francis was elected last March, even doctrinally dissident Roman Catholics like me cut the former Argentine cardinal some slack. “I want to believe,” I wrote then, “that his history as an ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church by raising the seeming contradiction over what it really means to be “pro-life.” Leo, ...