Pope Leo XIV's election as the first American to lead the Catholic Church elevated him to the rare position of being a U.S.

The rules behind Pope Leo remaining a US citizen now he’s a foreign head of state - Other US citizens have served as foreign ...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV's significance as leader of the Catholic Church is beyond dispute, but the papacy's role has historically extended far beyond the altar and pews. For more than a century, ...

Pope Leo XIV greeted thousands of his followers and world leaders during the Inaugural Mass of his pontificate in St. Peter’s ...

St. John Paul II’s birthday is May 18; he was born on this day in 1920 in Wadowice, Poland. When he was elected to the papacy ...

Pope Leo XIV delivered his first homily as Bishop of Rome at the Basilica of St. John Lateran, where he took possession of ...

In this week’s Throwback Thursday, Brian Bouchard revisits Pope John Paul II’s visit to Moncton, New Brunswick. Pope John Paul II was known as “The Pilgrim Pope” visiting over 129 countries in his ...

The name suggests he will continue the work of Pope Leo XIII, who led the Catholic Church between 1878 and 1903 with a commitment to social issues. Natalia Imperatori-Lee, the rel ...

For many centuries we have seen the custom of a new pope changing his name. It signals the kind of papacy he envisions as he assumes the mantle.

This was the state of the Catholic Church and the baggage that accompanied it for over a quarter a century in the long shadow cast by Pope John Paul II, when Jorge Bergoglio first became Pope 12 ...