Pope Leo XIV will canonize Blesseds Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati together Sept. 7, the Vatican announced.

Blessed Carlo Acutis and Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati are pictured in a combination photo. Both are scheduled to be ...

The cultural and pastoral diversity among clergy is not a burden but a gift that should enrich communion within the church ...

Pope Leo XIV’s father, Louis Marius Prevost, was a Navy veteran, who led the local Altar and Rose Society and served as a ...

When John Paul II was elected to serve as pope, he became the first and only pope to call Poland his native country and home. As such, he used his position and status to advocate the end of the Cold ...

A Mankato native who spent most of his journalism career covering the Vatican provided some dope on popes, his review of a ...

Leo’s elevation broke the longstanding rule of thumb that no American, as a citizen of a superpower, could or even should ...

For Vatican standards, it was a particularly long meeting that took place yesterday morning in the papal studio, between ...

How will Leo’s formative three decades in the United States before life in Peru and Rome shape his church of 1.4 billion souls? Yes, the cardinals must be thinking an American could solve the Holy See ...

First, there was a workplace accident that occurred a few months ago: a worker, while working on the Vatican construction ...

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Cardinal Robert Sarah as his special ... the pilgrimages “retain their vitality.” St. John Paul II visited the Shrine of Sainte-Anne d’Auray on Sept.

I wasn’t as lucky, though, at predicting our new pope, Leo XIV. I did think an American cardinal had a chance ... or the No. 2 position, in the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life.