Pope Leo XIV has revived a former Vatican tradition and granted employees a bonus of €500 ($568) for the election of each new ...

Four students from Los Angeles-area Catholic high schools will visit the Vatican to participate in a memorial service for ...

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 ...

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

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A quiet alliance between North and South American cardinals helped elect the first US-born pope.

The conclave of May 7–8 has yet to reveal all its secrets. But two weeks after the election of Leo XIV, our reporters in Rome ...

"Even though we didn’t actually see the smoke or see the new pope, the feeling of being there, it was in everybody's heart.

The Delphi method shows how structured anonymity and iteration can foster trusted consensus in sacred spaces (such as ...

Leo on Sunday made his first public remarks about one of the thorniest foreign policy issues facing his new pontificate.

Odds-makers likely had an easier time 20 years ago, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger stepped onto the balcony overlooking St.

Tens of thousands came to St. Peter’s Square to mark the official start of the pontificate of the first American to lead the ...