Leo also means “Lion.” Online sources say a lion symbolizes “courage, strength, power, leadership and majesty. In some ...

COMMENTARY: The Pope has put forward Augustine as his great friend, father and companion on the Way of Christ.

At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an unknown to many outside of the church.

The former Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, elected as the Catholic Church’s 267th Pope, is a tennis-loving, wordle-playing, ...

Le nouveau pape Léon XIV semble s’inscrire dans les pas de son prédécesseur concernant les questions de justice sociale et ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago and one of the 10 U.S. cardinal electors at the conclave that elected the ...

While it is interesting and perhaps even a point of pride that the new Pope Leo XIV was born in the United States, most of ...

The Church in Indian welcomed the election of Pope Leo XIV, particularly in southern states where he is well known.

Robert Francis Prevost, a Villanova University graduate and a Chicago native, was chosen as the first American pope in ...

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

While he has been to the Philippines several times before he became Pope Leo XIV, Robert Francis Prevost’s return to the ...

Our conversation took place on the sidelines of a major Vatican assembly focused on church reform efforts. It was part of a ...