Pope Leo XIV: Peacemaker and openness in an historic name
byBy Justin McLellan, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Even before he stepped out on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica and spoke May…
By Justin McLellan, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Even before he stepped out on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica and spoke May…
By Justin McLellan, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Where Christians are “mocked, opposed, despised or at best tolerated and pitied” is where the Catholic Church’s…
The election of Pope Leo XIV May 8 was a surprise, but a joyful one, Archbishop Shelton J. Fabre told local journalists a few…
School children cheered, church bells rang and Catholics gathered around TVs as white-smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on the afternoon…
Archbishop Shelton J. Fabre will celebrate a Mass of Thanksgiving for newly elected Pope Leo XIV at 6 p.m. Monday, May 12, at the…
By Russell Shaw, OSV News Cardinal Robert F. Prevost has selected the name Pope Leo XIV, an apparent nod to Pope Leo XIII, who…
By Gina Christian, OSV News Catholic groups are welcoming Pope Leo XIV — the second pope from the Americas, and the first U.S.-born pontiff…
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, the Chicago-born prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops under Pope Francis,…