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

How Pope Leo XIV chooses to tackle critical topics from same-sex marriage to women in the church remains to be seen, but ...

As Christians committed to peace, justice, and mutual respect, we should set aside biases and unite in prayer, supporting ...

More than a dozen members of the Gary Memorial United Methodist Church in Wheaton already traveling in Rome witnessed papal ...

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out on Thursday, ...

The “As It Was” singer was spotted in the crowd awaiting the new pontiff on Thursday wearing a gray baseball cap emblazoned ...

His public statements, voting records in Illinois and posts made on an X account ... of Pope Leo XIII, “the man who truly began Catholic social thought in the modern period,” said Rev. Art ...

Artists have captured the hidden world of papal elections for centuries, turning secrecy into spectacle for the public.

The election of Chicago-born and raised and Villanova-educated Cardinal Robert F. Prevost as pope at a time when the United States’ role on the world stage has never been more divisive has been ...