As white smoke billowed from a chimney above St. Peter’s Square and the world learned the name of the new Pope, one man at the March for Life in Canada stood stunned, unable to react. It wasn’t just ...

The new pope’s status as an American shocked me, and I immediately began to consider the politics and symbolism of the choice.

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...

People in the city of Chiclayo, where Leo XIV served as bishop for about eight years, gathered to celebrate a man they see as one of their own.

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

Robert Prevost served Peru's rural poor, even if it meant sticking his hands in grease. That is nether the hallmark of a ...

Philadelphia woman confirmed by Pope Leo XIV in Peru says she prays for pontiff daily 02:01. As the world looks to the future ...

Augustinians are distinguished from other religious orders by their emphasis on living together in community — priests and ...

Most of the journalists stood when the 267th pope entered the great room of the Paul VI Audience Hall adjacent to St. Peter’s ...

For Peruvian-Americans in the Diocese of Brooklyn, the selection of Cardinal Robert Prevost as pope on May 9 was a double ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — When Cardinal Robert Prevost emerged from the loggia of St. Peter’s as Pope Leo XIV on Thursday (May 8), ...