In his final Easter message, Pope Francis expressed pain over the violence and division throughout our world and urged us to ...

With the papal conclave underway, Maureen H. O’Connell writes that the cardinals who elect his successor should keep in mind ...

Pope Francis raised the consciousness of bishops, priests and laity around the issues of sexism and unjust discrimination ...

Phyliss Zagano, a Hofstra professor who was on a papal panel studying the issue, has high hopes that the next pontiff will ...

Scaraffia cites, in her view, just two positive changes Pope Francis made for women: the promotion of Mary Magdalene to an apostle and the cancelling of a norm that considered abortion a "reserved ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost is the first American pope in 2,000 years. What are his political views? Has he said anything about ...

How Pope Leo XIV chooses to tackle critical topics from same-sex marriage to women in the church remains to be seen, but ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost was chosen as Pope Francis' successor on Thursday, taking the papal name Leo XIV. The world is ...

Pope Leo was born in the United States, but for his adopted nation of Peru, he is a “Chiclayano” – a son of the bustling northern Peruvian city where everyone seems to have a story about him.

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...

I met the man who would become Pope Leo XIV in October 2023. We were standing outside the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and from my ...

Wearing white vestments, Leo processed into the Sistine Chapel and blessed the cardinals as he approached the altar and ...