More than 60,000 people have signed a petition calling for the removal of Cologne Archbishop Rainer Maria Woelki.

ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe of Catholics, riven by political divisions that have thwarted the will of ...

Pope Leo XIV formally assumed his role as the first American-born leader of the global Catholic Church with a Mass in St. Peter's Square in Rome drawing tens of thousands of people, including dozens ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

Pope Leo XIV, history's first North American pope, has celebrated his first Mass as pontiff in the Sistine Chapel. Cardinals elected the Chicago-born Augustinian missionary Robert Prevost to ...

A two-day conclave has come to an end with the election of Pope Leo XIV, successor to Pope Francis and the first American ...

Pope Leo XIV met Thursday with members of the Vatican’s child protection advisory panel for the first time amid questions ...

Many people throughout the world mourned the death of Pope Francis and looked expectantly upon the election of a new leader ...

The image of Trump as the pope just days after our revered Pope Francis died shows why he's a terrible model for morality.

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out on Thursday, signaling that a new pope—the 267th leader of the Catholic Church—had been ...

"The desire to work together for a common purpose reflects an essential reality: no one is Christian alone. We are part of a ...

By Jed Nelson There are moments in history that are so important, so joyful or tragic that we remember exactly where we were ...