In a moment reminiscent of Pope John Paul II's 1978 installation Mass, the new pope said, in Italian, "Be not afraid! Welcome ...

Pope Leo XIV will meet more than 6,000 journalists and media workers on Monday (May 12) in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, just days after his election. It has become a common practice with new popes ...

Leo said he will follow in the modernizing reforms of Pope Francis to make the Catholic Church inclusive, attentive to the ...

The Gospel tells us that what is of God will always draw us toward greater unity among all people and creation and of all in ...

Augustinian Cardinal Robert Prevost was the least American among the American cardinals, having spent most of his ministry in ...

The challenges for the Catholic Church in Chicago, where Robert Prevost grew up, are a microcosm of the gargantuan problems ...

The new pontiff is former Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, a Chicago-born Augustinian friar who previously headed the influential ...

NCR analyzed the biographies, background, articles, speeches, homilies and media interviews of members of the College of ...

I’m hoping and praying for a pope who is lionhearted about labor justice — a justice that is fundamental to human society, ...

Full text of the first public homily of Pope Leo XIV, given at a Mass for the College of Cardinals in the Sistine Chapel May ...

All the growing pangs we experience as we age are a language of the soul. They speak to us of inner wounds, joy, comfort and ...

While we do not know who the next pope will be, as a feminist theologian, I am not worried. Yes, the next pope can enact practices that reverse Francis’ reforms — but the Francis Effect ...