The Vanderbilt Divinity School professor said the papal name connects to a predecessor who championed workers' rights and peace initiatives.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The Catholic community is alive, beautiful and strong, and it is up to its pastors to protect and ...

The new pope, Leo XIV, is scheduled to deliver his first such prayer on Sunday from the loggia where he first appeared in ...

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"I asked him why he took this name," Filoni said. "He's an Augustinian. ... He told me, 'In this moment, we need a man with a ...

It seems to me like quite a long time ago that church sanctuaries were filled with crowded pews and folding chairs at ...

Robert Francis Prevost is an American leader who can remind the world what the United States represents at its best.

The Church has been blessed once again with a beloved shepherd to lead us in faith and unity," said New Jersey Cardinal ...

By choosing the name Leo XIV, the pope has indicated that he won’t merely be progressive or conservative.

The Baltimore faithful are marking a new era of the Catholic Church amid the election of the first American to become pope.

You have called me to carry that cross, and to be blessed with that mission, and I know I can rely on each and every one of you to walk with me,” the new pontiff said.

The Vatican conclave will continue on Thursday with as many as four more rounds of voting. A two-thirds majority of the 133 cardinals is required to select a new leader for the world’s 1.4 billion ...