Pope Leo XIV’s appointment of Cardinal Baldassare Reina as the grand chancellor ushers in a new era for the institute that ...

Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and U.S. Church leaders joined scores of American Catholics—many bearing U.S. flags—as the Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV celebrated the traditional Mass of ...

The Vatican said some 200,000 people attended the Mass at St. Peter’s Square, which marked the start of the pontificate of ...

COMMENTARY: Papal initiation homilies have long served as moments of clarity, not only inaugurating a pontificate but auguring its direction.

ANALYSIS: They share a love for St. Augustine but diverge on politics, immigration and AI. The conversation between Leo XIV ...

Still, it was an exciting moment for the Americans who were at the Vatican that day. Mariner says he and his wife were in a ...

ON May 8, the second day of the 2025 conclave to elect a new pope after Pope Francis died at 88 on April 21, 133 cardinal ...

The motto of one newly elected American world leader: " Fight! " The other introduced himself to the world with his first ...

Pope Leo XIV is both the first American pope and the first boomer pope, and any projections about what his papacy will look like are premature right now.

The pontiff held his first meeting with the news media at the Vatican and called on reporters to choose “the path of ...

I, too, address the world's great powers by repeating the ever-present call: ‘never again war,’” Leo said from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica.

Especially since the papacy of St. John Paul II – from 1978 to 2005 – popes have added short messages touching on different ...