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 ...

Vice President JD Vance gifted Pope Leo XIV a custom Chicago bears jersey during his visit to the Vatican over the weekend.

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 ...

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 ...

The first US pontiff in the Catholic Church's history has spoken about his namesake Pope Leo XIII's social policies, ...

said Robert Prevost’s choice of the name of Leo XIV, referencing XIII and his foundational encyclical on social teaching — suggests continuity with the church’s direction under Pope Francis.