The Catholic community is alive, beautiful and strong, and it is up to its pastors to protect and nourish the faithful and to help bring God’s hope to the whole world, Pope Leo XIV said in a May 10 ...

THE Catholic world — and even non-Catholics — are gushing over the election of Pope Leo XIV. He offers the Church the ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American leader of the Catholic Church, previously known as Robert Francis Prevost, gave his first ...

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...

Advocates for victims of sex abuse say there needs to be an accounting of how then-Cardinal Robert Prevost handled such cases ...

This pope will make mistakes; don’t we all? But on this day, Melinda Henneberger looks to him with great hope. | Opinion ...

Pope Leo XIV 's choice of name signals a commitment to social justice that is very much in line with the late Pope Francis ' ...

The newly elected pope, Leo XIV, once held a role at a Catholic school in Tulsa, Oklahoma, before rising to become the leader ...

In his first formal meeting with cardinals, which began with a standing ovation, the new pontiff said he chose his papal name ...

The pope invited the cardinals "to renew together today our complete commitment to the path that the universal church has now followed for decades in the wake of the Second Vatican Council." ...

From Vatican News Archbishop Timothy Broglio, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, expresses joy ...