Outcry over proposed norms in the North Carolina diocese is rising to international attention, as it represents the first ...

For more than 26 years, Pope John Paul II traveled the world with a silver pastoral staff topped with a dramatic, abstract ...

Pope Leo XIV will formally begin his ministry as bishop of Rome with a liturgy steeped in tradition and rich in symbolism May ...

New Pope Leo XIV began celebrating his first mass as head of the Catholic Church ... world's 1.4 billion Catholics, after a secret conclave by his fellow cardinals in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel.

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff for the Roman Catholic Church, will celebrate his inaugural mass on Sunday, ...

Pope Francis has been laid to rest, the conclave has been assembled and, after due deliberation by the participating cardinals, the world at last has seen white smoke wafting from the Sistine Chapel ...

Pope Leo XIV embraces each of the Cardinal electors just after ... Catholic social teachings. Leo XIII was remembered largely for his famed 1891 “Rerum Novarum” — Latin for “On New Things ...

Pope Leo XIV vowed Sunday to work for unity in a polarized Catholic Church and world, as history’s first American pope ...

VATICAN CITY — Jewish leaders got up-front seats at Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration Mass. An American rabbi there and other ...

Francis himself quipped that his successor would be John XXIV, after the progressive Vatican II-era ... some Catholic groups that can be considered traditionalists,” Regoli said. A new pope ...

Pope Leo XIV, the Chicago-born Augustinian missionary Robert Prevost, celebrated his first Mass in the Sistine Chapel.