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The Catholic Church under Pope Leo XIV NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Massimo Faggioli, professor of theology and religious studies at Villanova University — the new Pope's alma mater — about ...

Pope Leo XIV delivered this homily at the Mass for the Initiation of the Petrine Ministry on Sunday, May 18, after being elected the 266th successor of St. Peter on May 8.

After a short return to the U.S. as an official of the Augustinian order in Illinois, he returned to Peru as a seminary professor to teach canon law, the legal structure of the Catholic Church.

That Leo softened the church’s confrontational stance toward modernity, especially science and politics and laid the foundation for modern Catholic social thought. His most famous encyclical ...

making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment of global turmoil and conflict. Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States has been picked to be the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church ... the most important Catholic sacrament of the body and blood of Christ, to ...

The Catholic Church celebrates as Pope Francis's successor, Robert Francis Prevost, becomes Pope Leo XIV—the first American pontiff. PHOTO/S: EWTN YouTube After white smoke rose from the Sistine ...