The choice of a new name is an opportunity for newly elected popes to hint at their agenda for the Catholic Church. In 2005, ...

Pope Leo XIV is aware how protest, free speech and collaboration will shape a vision for a lively church that makes a ...

AND no one else, not even Leo himself. But Vatican watchers, prelates, priests and press, even prophecy followers, are making ...

Picked to lead the San Diego Diocese, Michael Pham is Pope Leo XIV's first appointment of a bishop in the United States. Pham ...

Pope Leo XIV, an American and a global citizen, can be a strong advocate for the First Amendment’s protection of freedom of ...

As the Catholic Church welcomed its 267th pope, Leo XIV -- elected May 8 -- attention quickly turned to the first moments of his pontificate. The first weeks of a papacy often give ...

As Pope Leo settles into the job, he signals what's ahead for the new papacy, taking action on the vision he sketched out in ...

We were once leaders in petroleum and gas research; now we’re becoming leaders in green hydrogen and carbon capture. This isn ...

Pope Leo XIV’s appointment of Cardinal Baldassare Reina as the grand chancellor ushers in a new era for the institute that ...

The election of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as the new Pope came as a welcome surprise to the Afro-Peruvian community.

The election of Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost, as the first American pope marks a historic moment for the Catholic Church. Yet, to define him solely by his Chicago roots would be to ...

Pope Leo I helped to ensure that Catholicism would outlast the Roman Empire. His name is a reminder that our faith rises ...