As the world’s fastest-growing region for Catholicism, Africa is closely watching to see what Pope Leo’s papacy has in-store ...

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

Catholic missions in places like Ōtaki, Whanganui, and Hokianga became cultural and spiritual hubs for generations of Māori.

A man who twice carried out prolonged beatings of his partner and then made her the subject of a campaign of threats, was jailed earlier this month.

Those from the Chicago-area close to Pope Leo XIV are making their way to Rome for his installation Mass Sunday. A teacher from Providence Catholic High School in New Lenox leaves for Rome Friday.

In his public appearance as pope, Leo called himself an Augustinian, putting an unusual spotlight on his religious order.

A small puff of white smoke from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in Rome on 8 May 2025 signified that 133 cardinals gathered in a conclave had elected the new head of the Roman Catholic Church.

The new supreme pontiff, elected less than a week ago, is expected by some to continue Pope Francis' legacy, while those more ...

The formal inauguration Mass – for the first US pontiff in the 2,000-year history of the Roman Catholic Church – will be held in St. Peter's Square on 18 May. He will also preside over the ...

Pope Leo graduated from Villanova University in Pennsylvania with a degree in mathematics, then studied theology at the Catholic Theological ... administrator of the Diocese of Chiclayo in Peru ...

Being sealed off from the world in the conclave to choose the new Pope was "immensely peaceful", England and Wales's most senior Roman Catholic has told the BBC. Cardinal Vincent Nichols ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost appears on the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica after being chosen the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, choosing the name of Pope Leo XIV, at the Vatican ...