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

Now then, the Bishop of Charlotte, Michael Martin, wants to put such severe restrictions on the Latin Mass as will set it on ...

Pope Leo XIV greets Orthodox Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon, a bishop of the Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate, during a ...

Two masterpieces, centuries apart, reflect a theological insight centuries old: Mary was given not only to John, but to the ...

On the eve of Pentecost, Pope Leo XIV prayed that the Holy Spirit would help Catholic lay associations, movements and ...

A devout Catholic, Jerry Lundergan hopes his Stations of the Cross with life-sized statues and a 70-foot cross will bring ...

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

The new pope seems remarkably unflustered by his election, aware of the enormity of the change that has happened to him, but ...

Eight-month-old Therese Giard of Haverhill might not remember crying in the arms of the head of the Catholic Church or what ...

Walking into St. Peter’s Basilica, there he was, depicted in a huge mural on a wall. He still wasn’t smiling, although he ...

The cardinals would sit in a hall in a half circle with the dean of the college of cardinals, the Italian Giovanni Battista, ...