"I wanted so much to come here in these first days of the new ministry that the church has given me" to seek Mary's help "to ...

The pope invited the cardinals "to renew together today our complete commitment to the path that the universal church has now followed for decades in the wake of the Second Vatican Council." ...

Westover filmed the nuns over a period of four years. There is no voiceover, nor are the nuns identified by name. We imbibe ...

Standing on loggia of St. Peter's basilica, newly elected Pope Leo XIV smiled, waved and appeared to hold back emotion May 8 ...

When Laura Gonzalez watched as newly elected Pope Leo XIV spoke to the crowd at St. Peter’s Square in Rome — and to the rest ...

Where Christians are "mocked, opposed, despised or at best tolerated and pitied" is where the Catholic Church's "missionary ...

Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, the Chicago-born prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops under Pope Francis, was elected the 267th ...

On May 8, the world met its new pope. Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary and Vatican official, took the name Leo ...

May the Lord preserve him, give him a long life, make him blessed upon the earth, and not hand him over to the power of his ...

Prevost had appeared on just about every shortlist in the press in the days since Francis’ death. But deep down, I’m not sure ...

In comments to reporters at the White House, Trump said, "It's such a great honor for our country, an American pope, and what ...

The pope's choice of name is a "direct recall of the social doctrine of the church and of the pope that initiated the modern ...