Preaching in the Sistine Chapel on May 9 to the cardinals who elected him, the first pope born in the United States opened his homily in English.

In Mark, the question Who is this man is answered not only through supernatural acts, but ultimately through sacrificial love ...

Only thus will we taste the sweetness of Christ's cross and come to embrace it with all the strength of Love, carrying it in triumph along the ways of the earth. Jesus is exhausted. His footsteps ...

Spain’s confraternities often make headlines in the foreign press as their Holy Week processions have become a tourist ...

Continuing the cycle of traditions that await a new pope, the newly elected pontiff addressed his cardinals in English and ...

The morning after being elected the 267th Pope, Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass with the Cardinal electors in the Sistine Chapel ...

Where Christians are "mocked, opposed, despised or at best tolerated and pitied" is where the church's "missionary outreach ...

The painting, “Christ Carrying the Cross”, from around 1565, had been enlarged in the 18th century, work the Getty’s conservators had to painstakingly undo.

115.8 x 83.5 cm. (45.6 x 32.9 in.) ...

The world is watching every word and move of the new head of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV, formerly known as Robert ...

The hope that Pope Leo XIV has enkindled in Dolton is also enkindled for those who remember the shuttered church that formed ...