When Robert Francis Prevost chose the papal name Leo XIV, it could have meant many things. There were 13 Leos before him: The first, Leo the Great, was a fifth-century ...

In casting himself as supreme leader and pope, Donald Trump inadvertently invoked the Christian understanding of the ...

Before the Reformation, there was not a Catholic Church in the Roman Catholic sense we think of today. It was just the church ...

The modality for choosing a PopeTHE election of a Pope, known as the papal conclave, is one of the most solemn and secretive ...

Pope Leo XIV has spent his first two weeks slowly speaking to the press, unfurling his vision for the papacy and going about ...

Christian-Jewish relations have been impacted by the Church’s responses to major technological shifts. By Daniel Friedmann, JNS In his inaugural address, Pope Leo XIV expressed concerns about the rise ...

Pope Leo XIV is the first member of the Augustinian order to be elected pope. How the Augustinian influence shapes his ...

Legacy. Pope Francis described ecumenism as “a journey, not a destination” that “all Christians are called to realise by walking together, praying together and working together, waiting for the Lord ...

The Mass for the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate will mark the official beginning of his ministry as successor of ...

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.

But the new pontiff is still “Father Bob” to the handful of Augustinian friars who serve in the basilica in a hilltop ...

It was 505 years ago, on June 15, 1520, that Pope Leo X turned to Psalm 74:22 (“Arise, O God, plead Your own cause”) to find ...