Pope Leo XIV has declared himself a Roman as he completes the final ceremonial steps cementing his role as the bishop of Rome ...

Pope Leo XIV has declared himself a Roman as he completes the final ceremonial steps cementing his role as the bishop of Rome ...

Pope Leo XIV holds his first general audience in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday, issuing an appeal for Gaza, which he calls ...

Happily, Pope Leo looks set to follow the lead of his predecessor: offering respect to other faiths (even to atheists); elevating women’s roles in the church; denouncing war and the Gaza catastrophe; ...

The choice of a new name is an opportunity for newly elected popes to hint at their agenda for the Catholic Church. In 2005, ...

Pope Leo XIV is aware how protest, free speech and collaboration will shape a vision for a lively church that makes a ...

To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the historian R.W. Southern once offered ...

“Americanism” has often been called a “phantom heresy”, blamed on a French translation of a biography of Father Isaac Hecker, ...

Who is a leader? With his surprise election and appointment of Cardinal Sarah, Pope Leo XIV is redefining Catholic leadership, balancing tradition and reform, diplomacy and doctrine, as he takes the ...

AND no one else, not even Leo himself. But Vatican watchers, prelates, priests and press, even prophecy followers, are making ...

THE election of Cardinal Robert Prevost, a 69-year-old Augustinian missionary to Peru, as pope on May 8 was a signal to all ...