A photo of newly elected Pope Leo XIV adorned a wall above one of the late Pope Francis in Chiclayo, Peru. Brazilian ...

Francis’ papacy honored Latin American Catholics killed for their social justice work, a theologian explains – and Leo may ...

Pope Leo XIV's election marks a historic moment: the first pope from an English-speaking country, and the first from the ...

Pope Leo XIV spent two decades ministering in Peru. He became part of Peruvian society and, eventually, a leader within it.

Despite being the first pope from America, a country where the Catholic Church is known for its relative conservatism, Pope ...

Prior to his elevation to the papacy, Leo XIV stayed out of the spotlight on certain reforms backed by his predecessor but ...

As the Trump administration dismantles climate action and cuts funding to Indigenous peoples around the world — and far-right ...

The Catholic Church has entered a new historic era with the election of American-Peruvian Robert Francis Prevost as the 267th ...

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

Last week was quite special for the estimated 1.2 billion Catholics around the world when white smoke billowed across St.

During the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, where bishops, archbishops, and abbots convened in 1884 to, among other issues ...