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

They include five Raphael frescoes and cover 1,500 years of papal politics and 500 years of art history. Raphael's Pope Leo X and cardinals Giulio de' Medici and Luigi de Rossi (1518-20 ...

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

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, ...

Step aside, presidents and prime ministers: Vice President JD Vance says he wants to work with the newest world leader, Pope ...

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 ...

After Leo's election Thursday, Vance posted congratulations on X, adding, ”I’m sure millions of American Catholics and other ...

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 ...