In the moment, the man who will go on to become the most recognizable religious leader in the world looks nervous. He looks ...

The Catholic Church’s first millennial-era saint Carlo Acutis will be canonized Sept. 7. That's according to Pope Leo XIV who made the announcement during a meeting of cardinals on Friday.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance is the most prominent proponent of a new Catholicism aligned with far-right politics. The ...

Through a distant maternal ancestor, who was born in the 1590s, Pope Leo is ninth cousins, various times removed, with some ...

By Kielce Gussie Commemorating 190 years of diplomatic relations between Colombia and the Holy See, the Pontifical Gregorian ...

Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals.

After the white smoke cleared, Brown papal historian David Kertzer reflected on the significance of an American pope, how the ...

By then, Considine had become head of the U.S. bishops’ Latin America Bureau. He worked with the onetime Catholic priest and ...

At one month since his election to the papacy May 8, Pope Leo XIV has so far demonstrated a continuity with his predecessor, ...

Pope Leo asked God to "open borders, break down walls and dispel hatred," during Sunday mass with tens of thousands of people ...

The Holy Spirit "writes in our hearts before all else the commandment of love that the Lord has made the center and summit of ...

Argentinas President Javier Milei met with Pope Leo at the Vatican on Saturday, marking their first official audience and opening a new chapter in Argentina-Vatican relations. According to ...