Catholics should be more familiar with the history of female and lay ecclesial leadership. We suffer from widespread ...

Pope Leo’s May 19 appointment of Cardinal Reina as grand chancellor appears to be a return to the former practice of linking the leadership of the institute to the vicar general of Rome.

Riggitano was a teacher at the Quincy Conservatory of Music and lived down the street from his sister at 836 Maine with the ...

From Polish pilgrimage trails to French vineyards, the places popes come from often gain new meaning. With the announcement ...

Vance, perhaps the world’s most prominent Catholic layman, has found his political ideology at odds with the papacy for the ...

Experts say there isn’t a single front-runner, but several names have been cited as indications of the direction the Roman Catholic Church might take.

Pope Leo XIV’s election marks a new chapter in the church’s social mission, renewing its commitment to global peace, justice, ...

Louis Marius Prevost, the father of Pope Leo XIV, served on a D-Day landing ship during World War II and was a junior ...

His first outing since his election was to a sanctuary dedicated to the Madonna and is of particular significance to his Augustinian order.

The Reverend James Bretzke, a theology professor at John Carroll University in Ohio, told USA Today this week that a diplomat ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost is elected Pope Leo XIV to become the first pope from the US. Read a recap of the events of May 8.

VATICAN CITY, — Robert Prevost, the new pope selected after Pope Francis' death, has chosen the name Leo, used by 13 popes before him dating back to the 5th century. To understand his choice, it's ...