To what degree will the new pope stand or not stand in continuity with Francis? As a scholar who has studied the writings and actions of the popes since the time of the Second Vatican Council, a ...

It has traditionally been the second most symbolic building in the Vatican, after St. Peter's Basilica. Leo XIVinstructed on ...

Pope Leo XIV committed to strengthening ties between the Catholic Church and Jews in a message to the Chief Rabbi of Rome, ...

In a press statement released on Tuesday morning the Royal Palace announced that King Filip and Queen Mathilde will travel to ...

The Order of St. Augustine, with fewer than 3,000 members, shaped the man who would become a cardinal, and then pope to the ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, is now known to be of African ancestry, part of a growing picture Americans are ...

Born in Chicago on Sept. 14, 1955, the pope grew up with his older brothers, Louis and John, in the Chicago suburb of Dolton.

Following the election of Pope Leo XIV, Father Kolawole Chabi—a Beninese priest of the Order of Saint Augustine and professor ...

Texas' Catholic bishops are impressed by the newly elected pope's commitment to global peace just days after his election to ...

The ecumenical patriarch, who had hoped to visit Iznik, Turkey, with Pope Francis in May to mark the 1,700th anniversary of ...

Concluding a series of special reports for The Irish News from the Vatican, Martin O’Brien heard from the new pontiff at an ...

New pope's deliberate decision to identify with Peru in particular and the Global South generally is no accident ...