Leo, she wrote, had followed the agenda of his predecessor Francis in support of migrants and the poor, although with reduced ...

It would not have been easy for anyone to step into the shoes of the fisherman after Pope Francis, just as it was not easy for Benedict XVI to follow St. John Paul II. But Leo XIV has done so with ...

Saint John Henry Newman – the 19th-century theologian, intellectual and preacher who journeyed from Anglicanism to ...

Tasmania has a new archbishop, among the first appointments made by Pope Leo — and his style is said to be quite different to ...

The first pope, Saint Peter, was born in the region known as present-day Israel. Around the year 97, Pope Saint Evaristus, also from the Middle East, took his place as the human head of the Church.

It was a message of pacification after the sometimes turbulent pontificate of Pope Francis exacerbated divisions in the ...

A pope’s No. 1 job is to secure doctrinal and ecclesial unity. But Francis prioritized outreach to the unbelieving and half-believing, and he regarded Catholics who adhere firmly to Catholic ...

Pope Francis led the Catholic Church from March 2013 until his death, after a papal conclave elected him to succeed Pope Benedict XVI, who resigned as pope in February 2013. A member of the Jesuit ...

Pope Leo XIV told one of the youngest priests in Spain, recently-ordained Father Miguel Tovar, 24, to never lose “the joy of ...

Pope Francis said early in his reign that he barely knew how to use a computer. Yet the more familiar he became with AI, the more concerned he grew. He became a leading global voice on the ...