The Gospel passage for Peter and Paul is Matthew 16: “You are Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church.” Leo XIV began his first homily the day after his election by quoting Peter’s confession ...

Jaro Archbishop Midyphil Billones will receive a pallium from Pope Leo XIV in a mass at the St. Peter’s Basilica today.

Many aspects of Pope Francis’ remarkable program of ecclesial renewal weare prefigured in Hans Urs von Balthasar’s vision for ...

COMMENTARY: Catholics belong to a communion of Christian disciples, and the challenge is to be agreeable even when ...

In the one-page message to his “brothers in the priesthood,” Pope Leo invited them to renew the “yes” they said to God and to ...

“We are called to deepen our closeness to Jesus and to be a source of harmony in the midst of our brother priests,” he said. ...

Pope Leo XIV doubled down on Friday on his appeal for unity in the polarized Catholic Church, urging priests to act in ...

Many U.S. pilgrims had planned travel around the original Aug. 3 date, only to learn they will now miss the canonization ...

The newly-elected Pope has promised that he would ensure there is proper accountability for widespread child abuse by ...

The French martyrs declared Friday died between 1944 and 1945, many after being arrested by the Nazi regime for their ...

Pope Leo XIV on Friday set Sept. 7 as the rescheduled date to canonize the Catholic Church’s first millennial-era saint Carlo ...

Leo XIV was born Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago in 1955. The jokes write themselves — about “da pope,” about imposing deep-dish pizza on the Italian peninsula by papal edict, about Leo ...