When Father Tony Ricard watched the new pope deliver his first address to the faithful Thursday in St. Peter’s Square, he ...

‘That dude looks like he could be my brother,’” said Ricard, a New Orleans Catholic priest with a Creole background. “And that’s before we even knew what his heritage was.” As it turns ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

It is still more than a year before the Redemptorists, a priestly order within the Roman Catholic Church, withdraw from ...

Pope Leo XIV is the first Pope from the Order of St. Augustine, which suggests he will promote peace and dialogue.