Robert Prevost, as bishop of Chiclayo, initiated a process with the Vatican for the recognition of a 17th-century Eucharistic ...

The pope’s family history of “gens de couleur libre,” or free people of color, can be traced back to Opelousas, a ...

But English, Spanish and Italian led the list. With the election of Pope Leo — someone who not only speaks those three languages fluently but knows well the cultures behind them — I feel like ...

Catholic worshippers have for weeks flocked to Alba de Tormes, a town ringed by rolling pastures in western Spain where the ...

Pope Leo XIV carries on his pectoral cross, among others, a relic of an Augustinian martyr bishop, Anselmo Polanco, who was executed during the 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War. In addition to ...

New Orleanian Catholics may have laid claim to the first American pope based on lineage that can be traced back to the 7th Ward, but a genealogical archivist in Opelousas said Robert Francis ...

Milei's visit to the Vatican comes as part of his 10-day European tour, including visits to Spain and France, and Israel.

Princess Charlene of Monaco, Queen Letizia of Spain, and Queen Mathilde of Belgium met Pope Leo XIV in Vatican City's St Peter's Square following his historic inauguration mass on Sunday.

Credit: Zarateman, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Bishop Polanco thus became the 13th Spanish prelate executed during those years of religious persecution. He was beatified on Oct. 1, 1995, by Pope ...

Pope Leo XIV's time as bishop in a small Peruvian city offers the clearest glimpse into his views on immigration.

Spain’s King Felipe and Queen Letizia attended Pope Francis’s inaugural mass—though, then they were known as Crown Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia. Twelve years later, they’re once ...

In the wake of Columbus's voyage, Spain and Portugal were on a collision course for control over the New World. To avoid conflict, Pope Alexander VI issued a series of bulls that ultimately led to the ...