Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

So far, Pope Leo XIV has leaned fairly heavily into the legacy of his storied predecessor, Leo XIII, but he reflects Leo X.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago has been elected pope, becoming the first American to lead the Roman Catholic ...

Cardinal Prevost's choice of the name Leo links him to Leo XIII, a 19th-century champion of social justice. It also recalls ...

From theologians to tacticians, emperors to reformers (and provocateurs), the Leos remind us that papal power isn’t always ...

Pope Leo XI, born Alessandro Ottaviano de’ Medici in Italy, was pope in 1605. He died the same month he was elected, making ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, selected a papal name with a long and sometimes sordid history in the ...

Commentators have already noted that the last Pope Leo (XIII) was known for his devotion to social justice and the Virgin ...