For the first time in modern history, the apostolic nuncio to the United Kingdom has celebrated Mass in England’s most ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, selected a papal name with a long and sometimes sordid history in the Catholic Church. Previous Pope Leos include those who engaged in crucial ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the history of a legendary papal namesake.

Pope Francis died early Monday morning at the age of 88. Here's how popes are selected and who the leading candidates are.

All Roman Catholics are Christians, but not the other way around, differing in beliefs about the sacraments, the pope, the saints and the Virgin Mary.

What does it mean that the newest pope has chosen the name Leo XIV? We look to the history of papal Leos to decode the choice.

Leo is also the first Augustinian friar to become pope, rising through the ranks as a friar in an order centered on communal life and humility.

Ahead of the conclave to select the next pope, names circulating included cardinals Bo of Myanmar, Tagle of the Philippines and Italians Pizzaballa and Parolin.

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the battle of Hattin, an opponent of Martin Luther being made a ...

Hans Küng is a Roman Catholic priest who believes that Protestantism must undertake a second reformation if the Christian church is ever to be made one, but that is by far the lesser half of his ...

Pope Francis will be buried today at Santa Maria Maggiore — who are the other popes buried there?

Editor’s update (April 21st, 2025): This story has been updated with the news that Pope Francis has died. A FTER MONTHS of ill health Pope Francis died at the age of 88 on Easter Monday. Francis ...