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 ...

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

By taking the name Leo, I believe the new pope is suggesting something similar. The important question is not whether new ...

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.

One of his last jobs before becoming pope was in Rome, running the office that helps decide who will be appointed a bishop.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, selected a papal name with a long and sometimes sordid history in the ...

Pope Leo XIV has been elected as the new leader of the Catholic Church, being the first American to hold the position in centuriesThe new Pope, a 69-year-old Pontiff, was born in Chicago in 1955, ...