For years before becoming Pope Leo XIV — as a parish priest and then bishop in Peru — Robert Prevost built ties with ...

COMMENTARY: Pope Francis’ successor should address four main aspects: persecution, social doctrine, missionary withering and ...

The death of Pope Francis has ignited widespread online curiosity about the process of electing the next leader of the ...

The Catholic Church has hardly stood in the vanguard of the scientific revolution. That makes it all the more remarkable that ...

Just days before the conclave to elect a new pope begins, on May 7, believers around the world expressed their desire for ...

The Two Popes, a 2019 Oscar-winning film about the relationship between Francis (Jonathan Pryce) and his predecessor Pope ...

In his final Easter message, Pope Francis expressed pain over the violence and division throughout our world and urged us to ...

In 2023, Pope Francis appointed Zuppi as his special envoy ... as Francis was weighing whether to allow married priests in the Amazon to address a priest shortage there. Sarah is one of three ...

The new Pope wears a watch. And, as with most things the Pope wears, people have a lot of feelings about it. Yesterday, Pope ...

P olitical figures around the world have congratulated Robert Francis Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, after his election ...