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

(OSV News) – A New Orleans genealogist has found that the first U.S.-born pope has Black and Creole roots – and the discovery ...

Pope Leo XIV asked journalists to be peacemakers by shunning prejudice and anger in their reporting, and he called for the release of journalists imprisoned for their work. “The suffering of these ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The Catholic community is alive, beautiful and strong, and it is up to its pastors to protect and ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – With a huge and festive crowd gathered in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Leo XIV led his first Sunday ...

Msgr. W. Ronald Jameson, the rector of the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C., gives his homily during ...

This reasoning is echoed in a private reply from the Apostolic Penitentiary (the Vatican “department” responsible for ...

Students at The Catholic University of America react to the announcement of the first American pope, Leo XIV, formerly ...

Pope Leo XIV will officially inaugurate his papacy with Mass in St. Peter’s Square May 18.

Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo, retired archbishop of Galveston-Houston, told the reporters that while the cardinals chose a pope ...

Host of the “Bible in a Year” and “Catechism in a Year” podcasts and a frequent presenter for Ascension, Father Mike Schmitz ...

Pope Leo XIV gives his homily while celebrating his first Mass as pope with the cardinals who elected him in the Sistine ...