Every pope brings a distinct vision and agenda for leading the church. Making change is difficult in the Catholic Church, but ...

Over the course of a day and a half, the more than 130 members of the College of Cardinals had come to a decision on who ...

Leo offered a novelty by singing the Regina Coeli, a Latin prayer said during the Easter season which recent popes usually ...

Leo, the first American pope, told the cardinals that he was fully committed to the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, ...

Americans quickly started reacting online to the election of Pope Leo XIV, the first pope from the United States. And of course, the memes soon followed.

Census records for Leo's maternal grandparents hint at the complexity of Creole identity and of Black identity in America.

(RNS) — The Holy Spirit surprised us Thursday (May 8) by electing Robert Prevost, an Illinois native who is also a citizen of ...

For some spiritually curious women, a 'mother’s blessing' ceremony offers a sacred approach to pregnancy and birth, but the ...

One attendee said the Trump administration's actions "put a real obligation on us to say: ‘No, our safety does not require, ...

Despite the foundation's assertion that TM's form of mantra meditation is non-religious, the Sanskrit invocations of Hindu deities and an initiation puja, called a 'ceremony of gratitude' by ...

But Pope Leo can only vote if he is a U.S. citizen. Voting as a dual citizen is not uncommon — Pope Leo also holds citizenship in Peru, where he served for many years. Does being elevated to pope, ...

Three cardinals agreed that, despite conventional wisdom that dismissed the possibility of a US pope, Leo's US citizenship ...