The Rev. Andy Matijevic has some impressive bragging rights. “I told the future pope what to do,” Matijevic quipped. It was ...

During the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, where bishops, archbishops, and abbots convened in 1884 to, among other issues ...

Francis’ papacy honored Latin American Catholics killed for their social justice work, a theologian explains – and Leo may ...

As the Trump administration dismantles climate action and cuts funding to Indigenous peoples around the world — and far-right ...

Prior to his elevation to the papacy, Leo XIV stayed out of the spotlight on certain reforms backed by his predecessor but ...

Last week was quite special for the estimated 1.2 billion Catholics around the world when white smoke billowed across St.

Fr. Thomas Reese used to be certain no American would be elected pope. Now, he admits, he has been proved wrong with this new ...

Chris Quilpa Habemus papam! We have a new pope, and he’s from the United States of America! Who would ever think that there would be a pope from America, a global power? No one expected that coming.

Francis Rooney said Pope Leo XIV will be a “fantastic pope” because he “can communicate with people in a very clear but nonthreatening way.” ...

Peruvians have celebrated the election of a man many knew as a missionary and bishop during his 2 decades of service in the ...

The Chicago-born pope had a one-word response when asked if he had anything to say to the people of the United States, which ...