As a Chicagoan who teaches at Villanova University, it was surreal for me to watch the election of Cardinal Robert Francis ...

While he seems to be followng in the footsteps of Francis, Robert Prevost is more elusive than his predecessors who ascended ...

Less than a week after Pope Leo XIV took the helm as head of the Catholic Church, he is already making the first social media ...

When the white smoke poured out of St. Peter's Basilica last week, 73-year-old Port Charlotte resident Louis Prevost learned ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, born in Chicago, has been elected Pope Leo XIV, making history as the first American to lead ...

The Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate (BCP) expresses its strong opposition to Pope Leo XIV, highlighting concerns over his ...

As the Trump administration dismantles climate action and cuts funding to Indigenous peoples around the world — and far-right ...

Prior to his elevation to the papacy, Leo XIV stayed out of the spotlight on certain reforms backed by his predecessor but ...

(RNS) — People keep asking me, “Is the new pope liberal or conservative?” The question itself betrays our culture’s tendency ...

To what degree will the new pope stand or not stand in continuity with Francis? As a scholar who has studied the writings and actions of the popes since the time of the Second Vatican Council, a ...

Experts see the new pontiff as less confrontational than his predecessor, but willing to stand up for the church's teachings.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed to Pope Leo XIV, asking the new pope for help in bringing home children ...