Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was headed to Rome on Wednesday to meet with Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican.

Pope Leo XIV urged governments to slow down and regulate artificial intelligence in a recent encyclical. Mississippi's chief economic development official, Bill Cork, responded to the Pope's AI assessments on his personal blog.

Pope Leo XIV voiced his concerns about AI in his first encyclical, sparking praise and memes on social media, along with jokes about a ‘Butlerian Jihad.’

A more moral AI is not enough if that morality is determined by a few,” Pope Leo XIV wrote in his first encyclical.

The pontiff hit out at the Russian despot.

JD Vance previously sparked controversy in April by invoking just war theory in reference to the Trump administration's conflict in Iran after President Donald Trump criticized Pope Leo’s opposition to that war.

History’s first U.S.-born pope, whose family history includes both enslaved people and slave owners, delivered the apology in his first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas” (Magnificent Humanity), which was released Monday.

Pope Leo XIV received Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez in a private audience at the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City on 27 May, as preparations continue for the pontiff’s planned visit to Spain in June.

Pope Leo XIV was given a Terrible Towel when he was visited by Saint Vincent College leaders at the Vatican.

But rather than deal strictly with its hazards, the letter, signed by Pope Leo XIV, has two overarching purposes: first, to defend humanity against those who have grown jaded about our shared nature and existence,