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

Suddenly I heard the most beautiful noise I have ever heard in my life: the sound of tens of thousands of people cheering as ...

Standing in front of the cascade of crimson curtains on the balcony of Saint Peter’s on the evening of May 8, with an ...

So perhaps it’s no surprise that when the news broke of the election of Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV — the first ... equalizer between power and the people. It’s why every election cycle ...

It was a truly hectic Sunday, May 25, for the American-born pope, as he visited the two major basilicas: St. John Lateran and ...

The new pontiff — the first from the United States — was elected on May 8 Michael Nied has been a digital news editor with PEOPLE since ... after 11 a.m. local time, Pope Leo began the ...

"It all happened quickly," the church said in a new statement Adam Carlson is the senior editor for human interest at PEOPLE ... and in The New York Times, Time magazine and elsewhere.

The last three popes each chose very different paths between Rome and home—sometimes confrontational, sometimes aloof.

His work has also appeared on ABC News and CNN and in The New York Times, Time magazine and elsewhere ... Democratic Republic of the Congo, tells PEOPLE he plans to visit the church "every ...