WAITING for an African Pope” by my brother, Azu Ishiekwene, made an interesting reading. Azu’s immense fecundity, as usual, his flawless prose, and free-flowing minting and weaving of words will ...

Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, is a native of Chicago who spent the first third of his life in the United States before his ministry took him to Peru and, more recently, to ...

For Catholics seeking a way to both honor the memory of Pope Francis and embrace the principles of his landmark encyclical ...

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

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

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

Survivors say Pope Leo must commit to transparency in investigations of priests accused of sexual abuse. His record on doing ...

Amid the mostly joyous reception for Robert Prevost, who stunned the world when he emerged from the loggia of St. Peter’s as ...

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

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Abuse watchdog groups have expressed ... the victims of ecclesial violence in the world,” wrote Escardó. The Rev. Hans Zollner, a Jesuit and top expert on combating sexual abuse, ...

Spokane Catholic Bishop Thomas Daly learned that cardinals had picked the first American pope while he was anchored in a dentist's chair for a teeth cleaning.

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.