A day before Pope Leo XIV spoke by livestream to teens at the 2025 National Catholic Youth Conference, Kristie Hughes Dugan -- president of Little Flower Catholic High Schoo ...

Latin America is still the heart of the Catholic Church. But beneath that Catholic dominance, the region's religious landscape is changing.

On New Year’s Eve, Dec. 31, and the first day of 2026, the Catholic Church offers the opportunity to obtain plenary ...

NCR's 10 most-read news stories of 2025 include coverage of the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV, massive aid cuts by the ...

Pope Leo XIV’s impact on the Church and the world is expected to come into fuller focus in 2026, his first full calendar year ...

The Holy Father marked significant milestones throughout 2025, such as the canonization of contemporary saints — including ...

Leo XIV urged the Catholic Church to counter a lack of faith in his first homily as pope, a day after becoming the first US head of the 2,000-year institution.

Pope Leo has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Timothy Dolan as leader of the Catholic Church in New York, replacing the prominent conservative prelate with a little-known 58-year-old bishop ...

Pope Leo appointed a relatively unknown cleric from Illinois, Bishop Ronald Hicks, to replace Dolan as leader of the nation's second-largest Catholic diocese.

Pope Leo replaced Cardinal Timothy Dolan as leader of the Catholic Church in New York, the Vatican announced on Thursday, sidelining a prominent U.S. Church figure in a major shake-up of the country's ...