Pope Leo XIV, an American and a global citizen, can be a strong advocate for the First Amendment’s protection of freedom of ...

To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the historian R.W. Southern once offered ...

(RNS) — Just hours after Pope Leo XIV was announced ... relationship with his brother may help U.S. Catholics learn to better love each other despite political differences.

In the days after Pope Leo XIV's election, his eldest brother's past posts supporting President Donald Trump got media ...

The last three popes each chose very different paths between Rome and home—sometimes confrontational, sometimes aloof.

There is no room in Augustine’s concept of authority for one who is self-seeking and in search of power over others,” he ...

Speculation has been rife about the political affiliations of Pope Leo XIV, but there is no evidence that he is a "registered ...

Pope Leo likes Wordle. People who play it like words, and they probably try to be precise when they’re speaking. That will ...

The new supreme pontiff, elected less than a week ago, is expected by some to continue Pope Francis' legacy, while those more ...

At a rollicking news conference at the U.S. seminary up the ... of their own become the 267th pope seemed to distance Leo from both his citizenship and the political polemics of the Trump ...

Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order, took the name Leo XIV. In his first words ... There has long been a taboo against a U.S. pope, given the geopolitical power ...