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

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

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

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

VATICAN CITY, — Robert Prevost, the new pope selected after Pope Francis' death, has chosen the name Leo, used by 13 popes ...

Leo XI holds the distinction of having the ninth shortest papal reign in Catholic Church history, with the pontiff dying of ...

The Chicago-born pontiff—the new spiritual leader of 1.3 billion Catholics and the proprietor in trust of the great art and ...

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What does it mean that the newest pope has chosen the name Leo XIV? We look to the history of papal Leos to decode the choice.

He was the 232nd pope. Pope Leo X, born in Italy as Giovanni de’ Medici, held the papacy from 1513 to 1521. He was the 217th pope. During his time as pope, he headed a massive project to ...