Pope Leo XIV, has a patchwork background that speaks to the melting pot that is the United States — and his birthplace, the ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost made history on May 8, 2025, when he stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as the ...

Catholics around the world were skeptical at first about an American pope. But Pope Leo XIV’s multicultural and multilingual ...

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

COMMENTARY: Pope Leo XIV is the first true missionary to lead the Catholic Church since Christ chose St. Peter.

Latest news and live updates as the election process for the next pope continues. The cardinals met for their first conclave ...

A successor to Pope Francis had been elected. But there will be a short wait before his identity becomes clear. By Elisabetta Povoledo Now that white smoke has finally billowed out of the chimney ...

The original Pope Leo, known as “Leo the Great,” who served in the fifth century, left an equally powerful legacy. He is ...

Pope Leo XIV will be known for many things, including being the first American pope and the first Augustinian pope, but he ...

ROME – The surprising election of the first American pope felt fraught and ... the most fundamental part of Leo’s identity may not be either his American or his Peruvian nationality, argued ...