After a two-day conclave, the cardinal electors chose Robert Francis Prevost to lead the church on May 8, when he took on the name Pope Leo XIV and became the first American to be named pope. Leo has ...

"(He) devoted his life to the service of God and the church, bringing the light of the Gospel to various areas of life and ...

Thousands of Asian Catholics who migrated to Japan should be viewed as missionaries of faith in the Buddhist-majority country ...

Before the election of Pope Francis, Charles Collins wrote something about what issues are facing the Vatican in the 21st ...

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

Azerbaijan’s hefty donations to restore Vatican treasures are drawing sharp criticism from Armenian activists, who accuse the ...

Stories about "the first 100 days" are standard fare at the beginning of a U.S. president's four-year term; the articles ...

Signs suggest that Pope Leo XIV may replace Denver's ultra-conservative archbishop with a socially liberal Catholic leader, ...

A survivor of clergy sex abuse in Peru brought her public campaign for reform to the American hometown of Pope Leo XIV ...

Italy agreed Thursday to a Vatican plan to turn a 430-hectare (1,000-acre) field north of Rome, once the source of ...

There was euphoria in the air, but a sense of something deeper, too. Something more profound. A joy, a sense of goodness, a ...

Shaped entirely by the Second Vatican Council, Pope Paul VI dedicated his pontificate to beginning the implementation of the ...