Religious scholars and political pundits are asking if (and how far) the new Pope Leo XIV will advance the Church, and ...

Pope Leo XIV ordained 11 new priests for the Diocese of Rome during Saturday Mass, calling for priestly lives that are "transparent, visible, credible".

Brazilian Cardinal Leonardo Steiner told America that Pope Leo would carry forward Pope Francis' legacy of synodality in the ...

Catholics, some members of the LGBTQ+ community and others who are marginalized − also revere the Virgen de la Puerta.

People were doing double-takes over the weekend, not because of a papal decree, but because of a watch. During a recent Holy Mass, newly appointed Pope Leo XIV, formerly Chicago-born Cardinal Robert ...

to be of the same religious order as the pope is special, Deffenbaugh, 78, said. But the connection goes further. For about four years, Deffenbaugh and Prevost — whom the Augustinian priest ...

St. Pio of Pietrelcina, known as Padre Pio, is seen in this undated photo that was part of a Vatican-hosted presentation of 10 new photos of the Capuchin saint on April 29, 2024. A habit worn by the ...

One of the many titles that Leo assumed when he was elected May 8 was bishop of Rome. Given his responsibilities running the ...

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

I would suspect that people are very proud that Chicago produced a pope, and it testifies to the fact that there’s a lot of good here in the city that recommends itself to the church.” ...

6-year-old Robert Prevost preferred to play priest. He gave out communion and neighbors said that someday, little Robert would end up as the pope. Turns out they were right. “We can only hope ...