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 ...

From Polish pilgrimage trails to French vineyards, the places popes come from often gain new meaning. With the announcement ...

Pope Leo followed in the footsteps of his late predecessor Pope Francis with the risky popemobile choice at the Vatican today ...

The Catholic Church’s first pope from the Augustinian order is already helping to educate the faithful through his deep ...

There are early signs that Pope Leo XIV is capitalizing on a moment of euphoria for Catholics and gaining traction within a divided church.

Showing up in Rome is pragmatic statecraft, executed under Bernini’s colonnade, where religious and political figures have long mingled.

At his installation Mass, the pope said, "in this our time, we still see too much discord, too many wounds caused by hatred, ...

No less than Pope John Paul II has reaffirmed much of Humanae ... even when he is not speaking infallibly; judgments made by him must be sincerely adhered to according to his manifest mind and ...

ROME (OSV News) — As the Catholic Church welcomed its 267th pope, Leo XIV — elected May 8 — attention quickly turned to the ...