With deep ties to both the United States and Peru, Pope Leo steps into spiritual leadership of 1.4 billion Catholics, ...

Presiding over a Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Leo was inaugurated as the first American pope, in a ceremony filled ...

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

we asked our readers to submit their views on the Catholic Church. Bill Fox (66), a retired clinical psychologist from Co Sligo, says he is “very proud to be a Roman Catholic in Ireland today”.

Every pope brings a distinct vision and agenda for leading the church. Making change is difficult in the Catholic Church, but ...

The Associated Press VATICAN CITY—Pope Leo XIV made plenty of enemies helping dismantle a powerful Catholic movement whose leaders physically, sexually, spiritually and psychologically abused members.

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out on Thursday, ...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, center, leaves after concelebrating Mass with the College of Cardinals inside the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican the day after his election as 267th pontiff of the Roman ...

“Everybody has their role and we are happy to stay at our place, which is not within the hierarchy ... how the Roman Curia – the administrative body of the Roman Catholic Church – is an ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States has been picked to be the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church ... a special way – is at work throughout the whole church; it includes not only the ...

Around 6 a.m., thousands of people began to file into St. Peter’s Square for Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural Mass. Thousands of volunteers from the Red Cross and other groups took positions in the streets ...