In this moment of deepening catastrophe, Hispanic America needs its first “Peruvian” pope to act not just as a global ...

To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the historian R.W. Southern once offered ...

Cardinal Robert F. Prevost's selection of the name Pope Leo XIV was an apparent nod to Pope Leo XIII, the father of Catholic social doctrine.

Now that Prevost has been elected pope, Paredes said he is filled with optimism for the future of the Church. He hopes that ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV said Friday that his election was both a cross to bear and a blessing as he celebrated his first Mass and details began to emerge of how votes swiftly coalesced to ...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Communities worldwide and in our region are coming together to honor and pray for Pope Leo XIV. "I was visiting a sick person and I was with the family, the television was on ...

The last pope to take the name Leo was Leo XIII, an Italian who led the church from 1878 to 1903. That Leo softened the church’s confrontational stance toward modernity, especially science and ...

But she came back May 8 to see what remained of the old sanctuary because it is where Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, began his formal religious journey. The rail where Nuzzo knelt for her first ...