Each language has its own way of greeting to begin a conversation. So no surprise, therefore, that, when we begin Mass, there is a greeting. After all, the Mass is a conversation. God speaks to us ...

Exciting? Kind of? I can’t really feign patriotism at this current political moment, but a Chicagoan pope will certainly please my Catholic mother-in-law, which is good enough for me.

Pope Leo XIV has called for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza with the release of ...

Where Christians are “mocked, opposed, despised or at best tolerated and pitied” is where the Catholic Church’s “missionary ...

Robert Prevost will be known as Pope Leo. A papal tapestry is unfurled and draped over the edge of the balcony as cardinals ...

Live updates and latest news as the first North American pope steps into his role as the new leader of the Catholic Church.

American cardinals who voted in the conclave played down the significance of the new pope’s roots in the United States, ...

The Mass comes less than a day after 133 cardinal electors selected Leo as the 267th pope of the Catholic Church.

Recalling the end of World War II 80 years ago, Leo quoted Pope Francis in denouncing the number of conflicts ravaging the ...