The announcement that an American cardinal had been elected Roman Catholic Church’s 267th pope had special meaning for a ...

There is little without precedent in the Catholic Church, but it is fair to say nothing exactly like the election of Pope Leo ...

A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave. The rest of the joke tells itself. In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV’s ...

It was fitting that when Pope Leo XIV was elected, the Italian Open tennis tournament was being played just up the road from ...

In the spiritual life, we are called to engage our bodies and spiritual souls. The different prayer forms of the Church are ...

John Prevost described his brother as being very concerned for the poor and those who don’t have a voice. He said he expects ...

In his first outing as pope, Leo XIV made an unannounced visit to a shrine dedicated to Saint Augustine in a small town ...

After white smoke billowed Thursday from the Sistine Chapel, signaling that a pope had been chosen, students in every ...

In a meeting with the College of Cardinals Saturday, two days after his election to the papacy, Pope Leo XIV explained that ...

The bishop sat quietly near the front row, hands folded, listening as Indigenous leaders and church workers spoke about the ...

All four of Pope Leo XIV’s maternal great-grandparents were “free people of color” in Louisiana based on 19th-century census ...

American cardinals who participated in the conclave that elected history’s first-ever pope from the United States hailed him ...