Rodriguez was born in the Dominican Republic and ordained to the priesthood in 2004, in the capital, Santo Domingo. He led the Our Lady of Sorrows parish in the mostly Latino Corona neighborhood of Queens when more than 100 of its parishioners died from COVID-19.

President Donald Trump said he remains open to meeting with Pope Leo XIV and insisted he wasn't aware of the pontiff's comments expressing disagreement with his immigration policies.

Ronald Hicks, a 58-year-old bishop from Illinois, will be formally installed on February 6. He has shown solidarity with migrants at a time when the US administration is ordering mass deportations and portraying migrants and refugees as criminals.

The pontiff responded to a controversial element in the Trump administration's new national security strategy.

Pope Leo XIV said President Donald Trump’s plan to end Russia’s war against Ukraine threatens to break apart the alliance between Europe and the United States.

The newly named pro-migrant archbishop of New York called himself an "unworthy servant" during his first Mass in the city after Pope Leo XIV named his fellow Chicago native to