From saints and scholars to fearless reformers, these popes didn’t just shape Church history — they shaped my life of faith.

Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first U.S.-born leader of the Catholic Church elevated him to the extremely rare, and legally ...

For much of the past century, it has taken between three and 14 ballots to find a pope. John Paul I — the pope who reigned for 33 days in 1978 — was elected on the fourth ballot. His successor ...

Scottish soon-to-be priests Matthew McCafferty and Kieran Burt reflect on meeting the new Holy Father — and following in his ...

The first American pope formally took possession of the St. John Lateran Basilica, which is Rome's cathedral and seat of the ...

Brazilian Cardinal Leonardo Steiner told America that Pope Leo would carry forward Pope Francis' legacy of synodality in the ...

Born Robert Francis Prevost and raised in Chicago, he is the first American to ascend to the papacy. He is a product of an ...

Many people throughout the world mourned the death of Pope Francis and looked expectantly upon the election of a new leader ...

In a world that pits humans against the environment, how can the Church point the way forward? The great gift of “Laudato Si'” was to apply the principles of Catholic social teaching to the problem of ...

Prevost is the youngest of three children — brothers Louis Martin and John Joseph grew up in ... on Thursday celebrated the election of their new pope and called special attention to his unique ...

How will Leo’s formative three decades in the United States before life in Peru and Rome shape his church of 1.4 billion souls? Yes, the cardinals must be thinking an American could solve the Holy See ...