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

When white smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel on 8 May, few outside ecclesiastical circles recognized the name Robert Francis Prevost. However joy erupted in Trujillo, Chiclayo, and among the dusty ...

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

For the Uruguayan leader, a longtime icon of the Latin American left, economic fairness was inseparable from human decency.

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

Discover the reaction of Arkansas Catholics to the historic appointment of Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born pope in the ...

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