Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Mexico, Colombia, Cuba and El Salvador are at the epicentre of an authoritarian surge.

Francis’ papacy honored Latin American Catholics killed for their social justice work, a theologian explains – and Leo may ...

A photo of newly elected Pope Leo XIV adorned a wall above one of the late Pope Francis in Chiclayo, Peru. Brazilian ...

In the soaring palace of Uruguay’s parliament, left-wing presidents from the region have come to remember former President ...

I, too, address the world's great powers by repeating the ever-present call: ‘never again war,’” Leo said from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica.

Latin America is a geographical, geopolitical, and cultural concept defined by the common characteristics of some of the ...

Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming ...

American cardinals who voted in the conclave played down the significance of the new pope’s roots in the United States, saying his service to the poor and the church had propelled him to the papacy.

Robert Prevost has been elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. The Chicago-born ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday begin the secretive, ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.