Pope Leo XIV welcomed Italy's newly crowned Serie A champions Napoli to the Vatican on Tuesday, joking about his own soccer ...

Pope Leo XIV, known for his love of the Chicago White Sox and tennis, challenges assumptions about his support for Italian ...

Who does the pope support? Doubts over Leo’s football club during audience with Napoli - Napoli clinched its fourth Serie A ...

Napoli president and film producer Aurelio Del Laurentiis presented Leo with a Napoli No. 10 shirt — the same number worn by ...

The name a new pope chooses will "indicate a ... the church initially said 'no' to much of that. Leo represents a very nuanced, intelligent engagement with modernity — not caving into it ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been announced as the new pontiff and has chosen the name Pope Leo XIV ... no' to much of that. Leo represents a very nuanced, intelligent engagement with modernity ...

creative engagement with modernity. And I think Pope Leo the 13th represents precisely that," Barron said. The bishop pointed to the Rerum Novarum to further his point, an encyclical letter issued ...

People were expecting that Pope Leo will carry forward the ideologies of Pope Francis and will bring change in the Church’s engagement with contemporary issues. However, his strong stance on ...

Leo is now tied for the fourth most common name chosen by popes, along with Clement. Only John, Gregory and Benedict have proven more popular. But we haven’t had a Pope Leo in more than a century.

After celebrating his first Mass as pope, Leo XIV is slated to have a full schedule in the coming days. His next engagement is expected to be a May 10 meeting with cardinals. He'll then have ...

The link between the papacy and the sporting world looks set to continue under Pope Leo XIV. The media quickly noted that soccer aficionado Francis had been succeeded by an amateur tennis player ...