Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

Priests and new converts to the Roman Catholic Church cited numerous reasons for why young Americans in their 20s and 30s are joining the faith after the COVID-19 pandemic.

The cardinals who are electing the next pope sometimes look as ideologically polarized as many secular voters around the globe. Many conservative Roman Catholic Church leaders disagreed with Pope ...

Among the powerful figures in the crowd? King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain, Queen Mathilde and King Philippe of ...

It strikes me as strange that our society strives to mold the Catholic Church in its image – centuries of tradition and ...

Pope Leo XIV, during his inaugural Mass, vowed to uphold the Catholic Church's teachings while addressing contemporary global ...

Here is why a woman might never become the pope. Doctrine, tradition and law prevent the selection of a woman pope The Roman Catholic Church is built on years of doctrine, tradition and canon law ...

The Second Vatican Council unleashed a passion for change in the Roman Catholic Church that has ... Among the first to attack the church’s traditional teaching on contraception and clerical ...

For the first time, the majority of cardinals to choose a pope are not from Europe, as Catholic demographics shift. But Europe remains the largest source of cardinals.

First, those who embrace Pope Francis’ wide-ranging, modernising changes in the Catholic church. The reform-minded pope made it possible to advance a new church culture that respected the voice and ...

Pope Francis, whose time as head of the Catholic Church was noted for ... although he stopped short of challenging the church's traditional positions on them. When a journalist asked him a ...