The 19th-century pope refused to endorse either the capitalists’ wait-and-see promise of progress or the communists’ longing ...

Last week, white smoke from the Vatican signaled that he'd been elected the first North American pope in the history of the ...

So it is no surprise that in his first public moment, as Pope Leo offered his Urbi et Orbi Blessing (to the city of Rome and ...

In a time of global uncertainty, the Vatican has reached deep into its past to revive a historic name. Cardinal Robert ...

But the new pope, in 2025, has done something more than mark an anniversary. By choosing the name “Leo” and explicitly ...

“Good choice,” he told Vance. The navy jersey had his name “Pope Leo” on the back. His jersey number? XIV, of course. The exchange was captured on video posted by CBS News one day after ...

While it is not yet fully known what our new Holy Father Pope Leo XIV’s favorite devotions are, some good indications of a ...

What should we read into the fact that after being elected pope, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost chose the name Leo XIV?

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 ...

During the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, where bishops, archbishops, and abbots convened in 1884 to, among other issues ...

There are few things more enduring in Maltese media than the tradition of translating papal names. It's one of those quaint ...

Catholics believe that the choice of a new pope is guided by the Holy Spirit, assuming that the electors are listening. Certainly, Leo XIV, who emerged from the conclave earlier this month as the ...