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

This Sunday’s readings offer practical, mystical and spiritual resources that the new pope will have to rely on and remember ...

As the mourning period for Pope Francis’ death drew to a close, the celebration of a newly elected pontiff, Pope Leo XIV, has ...

The veneration of Virgin Mary is central to Catholics, from popes to the ordinary faithful ...

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Pope Leo XIV vowed Sunday to work for unity in a polarized Catholic Church and world, as history’s first American pope ...

Leo officially opened his pontificate by taking his first popemobile tour through the piazza, a rite of passage that has ...

We read in the hymn from Matins on the feast of the Holy Family ... "Mother of God and Our Mother," FG, 287. 17. "The Epiphany of Our Lord," CPB, 38. 18. "To Jesus through Mary," CPB, 143.