When a history book includes a foreword written by the subject’s descendants, it signals that the author’s standard of ...

Pope Leo XIV is just over a day into his pontificate and is already capturing style critics' attention with his return to ...

At Boston College's 149th commencement, keynote speaker Dame Louise Richardson called on graduates to "fly out of the gates ...

Intrigue, fashion, humility, faith—133 cardinal electors have descended on Rome to choose a new pope and their every move and ...

The message that shone through Francis’s provisions for his departure was that the true place of his church was on the margins of society. Shortly before his death, he used nearly all the money he had ...

Before the white robes, the Vatican balcony waves, and the global headlines, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was just "Father Jorge," a serious young Jesuit priest walking the streets of San Miguel, Argentina.

The next pontiff will have to re-establish cordial and deep relations between the Church and Western countries, especially the US. #EuropeNews ...

(AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis) There is a reason popes dress in robes and cassocks ... adhering to the Jesuit vow of poverty, admired by many who believed it conveyed a sense of closeness with ...

It’s just remarkable to see someone I know as the pope,” said the Rev. Joe Roccasalva, an Augustinian priest who grew up in ...

There is legitimacy in preventing robes and rings from becoming idols ... his lifelong embrace of material poverty, adhering to the Jesuit vow of poverty, admired by many who believed it conveyed ...

Louis Prevost, one of Pope Leo XIV’s two older brothers, lives 70 miles south of Tampa, in Port Charlotte.