Reigning from 1513 until 1521, Leo X is probably best known for excommunicating Protestant Reformation leader Martin Luther, ...

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

In casting himself as supreme leader and pope, Donald Trump inadvertently invoked the Christian understanding of the ...

For the first time in the history of these two preeminent institutions, their chosen leaders share the same nationality.

New pope's deliberate decision to identify with Peru in particular and the Global South generally is no accident ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago has been elected pope, becoming the first American to lead the Roman Catholic ...

Colin McEnroe is a freelance columnist for Hearst Connecticut Media Group. He hosts the daily WNPR show, The Colin McEnroe ...

A pope can keep his own name if he chooses ... “because Philip Neri is the apostle of Rome during the Renaissance and Reformation,” referring to the 16th-century priest who founded the ...

What does it mean that the newest pope has chosen the name Leo XIV? We look to the history of papal Leos to decode the choice.

according to Modern Reformation. For the past several centuries, popes have traditionally lived in the Papal Apartments of the Apostolic Palace, located on over 100 acres of land called the ...

Robert Prevost, Chicago-born missionary, was chosen as the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church, taking on the name Leo ...