As Australia emerges from its latest election, two pillars of public life — the Church and the Liberal Party — face ...

(RNS) — It was a moment we had been told never to expect: An American cardinal, Robert Prevost, stepped onto the balcony of ...

When Robert Francis Prevost chose the papal name Leo XIV, it could have meant many things. There were 13 Leos before him: The ...

Catholics suffer from widespread ignorance of important, historical precedents of both female and lay ecclesial leadership.

Nearly a decade earlier, Answers in Genesis opened a Creation Museum in nearby Petersburg, Kentucky, where exhibits similarly ...

Odds-makers likely had an easier time 20 years ago, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger stepped onto the balcony overlooking St.

That the head of the Catholic Church is as American as baseball proves that ancient prejudices can be conquered and rifts between people can be mended.

America’s first pope, Leo XIV, is already reshaping Vatican priorities. But can he unite tradition and reform in a church ...

Pope Leo XIV has stepped into the position of leader of the Catholic Church at a time when the church in the United States is ...

Tens of thousands came to St. Peter’s Square to mark the official start of the pontificate of the first American to lead the ...

Vice President JD Vance attended Pope Leo's inaugural mass. The trip could set the tone for the Trump administration's ...

Pope Leo XIV set the tone for his papacy with a call to stop exploiting nature and marginalising the poor at his inaugural ...