Pope Leo XIV’s American and Peruvian experience offers a compelling moral and economic lens through which to examine the ...

Where census takers in Louisiana recorded them as Black, census takers in Illinois recorded them as white. So, too, do other ...

The new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who began digging in the ...

Pope Leo XIV has spoken publicly about the challenges to human dignity, justice and labor that arise from “developments in ...

Vatican unveiled Pope Leo XIV’s portrait and signature, marking his return to tradition. His papal symbols reflect deep ...

Following the election of Pope Leo XIV, Father Kolawole Chabi—a Beninese priest of the Order of Saint Augustine and professor ...

For many centuries we have seen the custom of a new pope changing his name. It signals the kind of papacy he envisions as he assumes the mantle.

I listened to Pope Leo’s first messages with Augustinian ears. In his first words from the balcony, and then in his homily at ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A quiet alliance between North and South American cardinals helped elect the first US-born pope.

Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, becomes the first American-born pope, bringing a history of advocacy for the poor ...

Pope Leo XIV leads his first Mass as pontiff in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican May 9, 2025. Pope Leo, formerly Cardinal ...