Meeting the new pope for the first time at the Vatican City’s modernist Paul VI Audience Hall became one of those events.

Pope Leo XIV may have broken a historic barrier by becoming the first pontiff from the United States, but his views on the ...

The Episcopal Church is refusing to help the Trump administration resettle white South African “refugees,” ending a ...

Bishop Robert Prevost recalled his early meetings with Pope Francis when the latter was archbishop of Buenos Aires when they ...

Some conservatives and traditionalist Catholics are cautiously optimistic over the historic election of Pope Leo XIV.

Those who knew Pope Leo XIV as a younger man say his path to the papacy has prepared him well for the challenges ahead.

When I heard that the newly elected Pope had taken the name Leo XIV, I was not surprised. The answer was in the latter part of and around 1890. Pope Leo XIII was in communication with Cardinal Gibbons ...

Pope Leo XIV is both the first American pope and the first boomer pope, and any projections about what his papacy will look like are premature right now.

He lashed out at Martha Raddatz for suggesting “Pope Leo’s selection had nothing to do with Donald Trump,” which she didn’t ...

Latter-day Saint scholar Matthew Bowman explains the similarities and differences in how Catholics pick their popes and ...

Pope Leo XIV traveled to several countries as prior general of the Order of St. Augustine between 2001 and 2013 and also as a ...

Pope Leo XIV, born in Chicago in 1955, became a novitiate in the Order of St. Augustine at age 22 after graduating from ...