The Château d'Ecouen, home to the Renaissance Museum, is taking part in the Nuit des Musées on May 17, 2025, opening its ...

Few kings of France faced a more daunting prospect than Henri Bourbon in 1589. France was decades into the Wars of Religion, ...

Cardinal Prevost was elected pontiff on the second day of the conclave, becoming the leader of 1.4 billion Roman Catholics.

Raised in Chicago, formed as a bishop in Peru, and forged by St. Augustine’s witness, Leo XIV begins his papacy with a quiet ...

The pope's Creole roots in New Orleans are a source of pride among the city's Black Catholics. But the revelation also ...

Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost is elected Pope Leo XIV to become the first pope from the US. Read a recap of the events of May 8.

Thirteen previous leaders of the Catholic Church had gone by the name Leo, though none since the election of Leo XIII in 1878 ... XIV's family includes his father, Louis Marius Prevost, of ...