Chicago’s celebration of Pope Leo XIV’s election will take place June 14 at Rate Field, home of the White Sox. Leo, a native ...

Confounding the prognostication of oddsmakers and Vatican watchers everywhere, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected as ...

The Catholic leaders of Leo’s hometown hold out hope that the new pope can help turn around ailing finances and a shortage of ...

The world of Donald Trump, Elon Musk and similar believers in transactional reality has created a moral vacuum. There is an ...

The new pontiff has signaled the direction he intends to take his papacy in handling certain social questions that need moral ...

The pope’s family history of “gens de couleur libre,” or free people of color, can be traced back to Opelousas, a ...

Born Robert Francis Prevost and raised in Chicago, he is the first American to ascend to the papacy. He is a product of an ...

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

The Rule of St. Augustine offered monks a firm structure for their daily lives of work and prayer, even before the mendicant ...

The previous Pope Leo emphasized the Catholic Church's responsibility to care for the poor and support workers' rights.

Twenty days into his papacy, Pope Leo XIV’s appointment style remains largely unknown — but his years leading the Diocese of ...

The Papal conclave has elected Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new leader of the Catholic Church. Here’s what we know ...