People react at the Cathedral of St. Mary in Chiclayo, Peru, May 8, 2025, the day Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected ...

Standing on loggia of St. Peter’s basilica, newly elected Pope Leo XIV smiled, waved and appeared to hold back emotion May 8 ...

(OSV News) – A New Orleans genealogist has found that the first U.S.-born pope has Black and Creole roots – and the discovery ...

Pope Leo XIV asked journalists to be peacemakers by shunning prejudice and anger in their reporting, and he called for the release of journalists imprisoned for their work. “The suffering of these ...

Catholics and non-Catholics alike were abuzz with excitement in Chicago May 8, after one of the city’s native sons became ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The Catholic community is alive, beautiful and strong, and it is up to its pastors to protect and ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – With a huge and festive crowd gathered in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Leo XIV led his first Sunday ...

Pope Leo XIV will officially inaugurate his papacy with Mass in St. Peter’s Square May 18.

Where Christians are “mocked, opposed, despised or at best tolerated and pitied” is where the Catholic Church’s “missionary ...

This reasoning is echoed in a private reply from the Apostolic Penitentiary (the Vatican “department” responsible for ...

Pope Leo XIV gives his homily while celebrating his first Mass as pope with the cardinals who elected him in the Sistine ...

Here’s a step-by-step guide for what happens after a new pope has been elected: ...