The Church has been blessed once again with a beloved shepherd to lead us in faith and unity," said New Jersey Cardinal ...

Catholic groups from around the nation are elated by the newly chosen Pope Leo XIV, while assuring him of their prayers and ...

"It was a very impressive ecclesial, spiritual and human experience," Chilean Cardinal Fernando Chomalí said about the ...

The seagulls perched on the Sistine Chapel rooftop undoubtedly saw the white smoke first. But it didn't take long for the ...

Pope Leo XIV will officially inaugurate his papacy with Mass in St. Peter's Square May 18. Although he was pope from the ...

The news spread quickly May 8 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, festooned in papal gold ...

As the Catholic Church welcomes its first American pope, here are 10 things to know about Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal ...

(OSV News) — Full text of the first public homily of Pope Leo XIV, given at a Mass for the College of Cardinals in the ...

The head of the Midwestern Augustinian province that Pope Leo XIV once led called the U.S.-born new pope's election a "moment ...

The Catholic Church's "missionary outreach is most desperately needed," Pope Leo XIV said in his first homily as leader of ...

On May 8, the world met its new pope. Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary and Vatican official, took the name Leo ...

Pope Leo's first public words, "Peace be with you," could not have been "a more kind, a more gentle, a more pastoral opening," said one papal historian.