The 19th-century pope refused to endorse either the capitalists’ wait-and-see promise of progress or the communists’ longing ...

Pope Leo XIV has spent his first two weeks slowly speaking to the press, unfurling his vision for the papacy and going about ...

Christian-Jewish relations have been impacted by the Church’s responses to major technological shifts. By Daniel Friedmann, JNS In his inaugural address, Pope Leo XIV expressed concerns about the rise ...

Legacy. Pope Francis described ecumenism as “a journey, not a destination” that “all Christians are called to realise by walking together, praying together and working together, waiting for the Lord ...

The Mass for the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate will mark the official beginning of his ministry as successor of ...

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

But the new pontiff is still “Father Bob” to the handful of Augustinian friars who serve in the basilica in a hilltop ...

Like his close friend Pope Francis, he has been a voice for ... He is the first Swedish Catholic bishop since the Protestant Reformation and a staunch defender of Church doctrine, notably opposed ...

His Reformation led to a division of the church and saw the eventual dissolution of many of the order's monasteries in Germany. The election of Pope Leo XIV brought congratulations from all over ...

“The pope will have to do a lot of teaching ... he became the first ethnically Swedish bishop of the country since the Reformation centuries earlier. He is multilingual, with a master’s ...