After the white smoke cleared, Brown papal historian David Kertzer reflected on the significance of an American pope, how the ...

What did Papa Francisco see that we need to see? What tools do we have so we can choose correctly? And how do we act ...

When Pope Leo XIV summoned the leader of Opus Dei to see him, in one of his first official papal audiences, Vatican watchers ...

The new pope seems remarkably unflustered by his election, aware of the enormity of the change that has happened to him, but ...

While Cardinal Pedro Ricardo Barreto Jimeno doesn't plan to join protests, he said he will be supporting peaceful activists' call for action on the ‘ecological debt’ crisis.

Brazilian Cardinal Leonardo Steiner told America that Pope Leo would carry forward Pope Francis' legacy of synodality in the ...

ANALYSIS: In the first month of his papacy, Leo XIV has demonstrated that he has the grounded demeanor, bridge-building ...

The church's concern about global warming cannot die with Pope Francis. The ball has been passed to Pope Leo XIV ...

Pope Leo XIV blessed the more than 150 cyclists competing in the Giro d’Italia on Sunday as the three-week race’s final stage ...

Pope Leo XIV's election as the first U.S.-born leader of the Catholic Church elevated him to the extremely rare, and legally thorny, position of being an American citizen who now is also a foreign ...

(AP) — With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday began the centuries-old rituals to elect a successor to Pope Francis, celebrating a ...

In this moment of deepening catastrophe, Hispanic America needs its first “Peruvian” pope to act not just as a global statesman but as a prophetic voice in the wilderness.