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 ...

It’s been a big week for the Chicago White Sox, though it has nothing to do with what happened on the field. The team announced Monday that longtime organist Nancy Faust — who stepped away from The ...

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

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

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 ...

Through his faith, many were healed in the name of Jesus. Faith must be the path that leads us beyond our hesitations and doubts and leaves us free and confident in Jesus. This Sunday reflection ...

The next pope will need to be a spiritual leader who is himself unafraid, and offers Christians — and all people of good — ...