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 named Sister Nathalie Becquart the first woman with voting rights in the Synod of Bishops. Together with author ...

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

Pope Leo XIV’s first signals about the style and substance of his pontificate show why he won such broad assent at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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