Robert Francis Prevost, the first US-born pope, embodies Catholicism’s anti-nationalist ethos. Will he follow Pope Francis in ...

The Catholic office overseeing the Gaza church with which the late Pope Francis communicated daily has shared with Newsweek a ...

White smoke emerged from the Sistine Chapel on the evening of Thursday, May 8, signaling that the Vatican has elected a new ...

The Catholic Church has a new leader and congratulations are pouring in as Pope Leo XIV prepares to celebrate his first Mass.

The inauguration Mass on May 18 will be the formal installation ceremony where Pope Leo XIV will receive the Fisherman’s Ring and the pallium as symbols of his papal office. The “taking possession” ...

Leo spoke off-the-cuff in English to the cardinals who elected him to lead the Catholic Church and follow in Pope Francis’ social justice-minded footsteps.

Pope Leo XIV has only been in the job one day and already faces a packed schedule of religious services, diplomatic meetings ...

The world receives a message of ‘peace and justice’ from the Vatican amid global turmoil and a long shadow of abuse in the ...

I was reading some comments by Margaret Susan Thompson, who is a professor of history and political science in the United ...

The new pontiff, who was chosen as leader of the Catholic Church on Thursday (May 8), has travelled extensively in Asia where ...