Holy pop! According to a new deep dive published by The New York Times, the newly named Pope Leo XIV is related to two of pop music's biggest names: Madonna and Justin Bieber. In assembling a detailed family tree for the Chicago-born religious leader - who was elected the new head of the Catholic Church in May following the death of Pope Francis - the publication found that Leo is distantly linked to the two singers through a shared ancestor born about six generations back.

Harvard University Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr. takes a deep dive into the pope's past in New York Times Magazine piece.

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Pope Leo XIV made his first appointment of a Chinese bishop under the Vatican's 2018 agreement with Beijing, signalling he is continuing one of Pope Francis' most controversial foreign policy decisions.

Pope Leo XIV has released his message for the ninth World Day of the Poor, which will be held on Sunday, Nov. 16.

Pope Leo XIV has appointed a new president for the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life, a bioethics think tank that Catholic conservatives criticized under Pope Francis for departing from official church teaching on issues such as contraception and euthanasia.

Pope Leo XIV urges a common Easter date for Catholics and Orthodox at a Vatican symposium marking 1,700 years since the Council of Nicaea.