As much as Leo has echoed Francis, the first American pope has staked out differences, too. VATICAN CITY — As he has done in ...

Fr. Thomas Reese used to be certain no American would be elected pope. Now, he admits, he has been proved wrong with this new ...

The papal apartment, which is a series of rooms wrapping around the Vatican’s Sixtus V Courtyard, was the traditional home of ...

WAITING for an African Pope” by my brother, Azu Ishiekwene, made an interesting reading. Azu’s immense fecundity, as usual, ...

China congratulated Pope Leo XIV after his May 8 election. Now, the country’s 12 million Catholics are watching closely to ...

In his public appearance as pope, Leo called himself an Augustinian, putting an unusual spotlight on his religious order.

Pope Francis was a regular poster as well. According to the Vatican, his posts were a “near-daily accompaniment throughout ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

Experts see the new pontiff as less confrontational than his predecessor, but willing to stand up for the church's teachings.

Francis challenged the ethnonationalism of the U.S. Catholic right. With the election of Leo XIV, the battle lines are being ...

Irish Loreto Sr. Patricia Murray, the executive secretary of the Rome-based International Union of Superiors General, or UISG ...

Admirers and critics of Pope Francis can agree that his pontificate was revolutionary and that he was an alluring personality ...