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

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

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

The death of Pope Francis has ignited widespread online curiosity about the process of electing the next leader of the ...

Every pope brings a distinct vision and agenda for leading the church. Making change is difficult in the Catholic Church, but ...

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

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Most stories about Pope Francis mention that he made history as ... lives of Native peoples from across the nine countries of the Amazon. During the papal Mass Francis celebrated in Chiapas ...

Pope Leo XIV could bring big change to the Catholic Church – here’s how Francis set the stage - Francis had begun making ...

“But Pope Francis, precisely because he was Latino ... An emblematic moment came in 2019, at the Amazon synod in Rome. One of its central questions was the plummeting numbers of Catholics ...

Pope Francis was the fiercest climate and environment ... In 2018, the pope made his first visit to the Amazon in Peru, where he called on industry to end its destruction of the vast biome ...

Pope Francis with representatives of the Amazon rainforest’s ethnic groups and Catholic prelates at the Vatican in 2019.Credit...Alessandra Benedetti/Corbis, via Getty Images In a shift for the ...