Agostino Giovagnoli, a professor of Church history at Milan’s Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, described the more ...

Pope Leo XIV has broken the seal on the papal apartments, marking one of his first major symbolic moments as pontiff ...

Pope Leo XIV Thursday met with members of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors to get an update about their ...

succeeding Pope Francis, and taking the name Pope Leo XIV. He’s been elected following a millennium-old ceremony known as the papal conclave. During the conclave, 133 eligible cardinal electors of the ...

A two-day conclave has come to an end with the election of Pope Leo XIV, successor to Pope Francis and the first American ...

Prevost, who was promoted by Francis and has a knack for management and a zeal for missionary work, was a stronger candidate than many outside the Vatican knew.

Brazilian Cardinal Leonardo Steiner told America that Pope Leo would carry forward Pope Francis' legacy of synodality in the ...

Swedish Cardinal Anders Arborelius said the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV “was first and foremost a unifying experience.

We're still at the Rorschach test stage of the papacy, in which people can project almost anything they want to see amid the ...

Pope Leo XIV asked Sunday for prayers for China’s Catholics to be in communion with the Holy See, as he made his first public ...