The Vatican wanted a complete makeover of the vatican.va website. The catch was it had to be ready to launch with the ...

In the moment, the man who will go on to become the most recognizable religious leader in the world looks nervous. He looks ...

Every time Father Bill Joy visited a new country with Catholic Relief Services, the locals always wanted to know two things: If he knew the pope, and if he knew Michael Jordan. Father Jo ...

Bennett stressed that Francis encouraged the charismatic renewal, along with other lay movements, like Pope Benedict XVI and ...

Pope Leo XIV waves after walking onto the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican May 8, 2025, following his election during the conclave. He is the first American pope and the first ...

I have lived during the Papacy’s eight popes. The first was Pius XII who died on Oct. 9, 1958. Pope Leo the XIV’s papacy will likely be my last because at 69 he is 10 years younger than I am. He is ...

Pope Leo XIV meets with UN Secretary-General to address global challenges, highlighting the Vatican's role in international ...

During his ministry in Montevideo, Elder Gary E. Stevenson met with children, young adults, members and pioneers of the Church as well as the country’s vice president and Catholic cardinal ...

By then, Considine had become head of the U.S. bishops’ Latin America Bureau. He worked with the onetime Catholic priest and ...

The ascendancy of Cardinal Robert Prevost — now Pope Leo XIV – to become the global head of the Catholic Church is an ...

Long before colonization, the people of Peru kept track of important information using a mysterious coding system of strings ...

Leo’s elevation broke the longstanding rule of thumb that no American, as a citizen of a superpower, could or even should ...