Whether mainline Protestant warmth toward the new pope is a result of convergence on social justice issues or pride in the ...

The new pope is aiming to bolster relations between the Catholic Church and Jerusalem.

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

This new initiative invites the faithful to raise their voices in song alongside Pope Leo XIV, who has done so himself ...

The impact of the news that the new Pope Leo XIV has Louisiana Creole roots in the 7th Ward of New Orleans was palpable even ...

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 would suspect that people are very proud that Chicago produced a pope, and it testifies to the fact that there’s a lot of ...

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

You don’t have to be a Catholic, a Christian, or even believe in God to feel the impact surrounding the announcement of the new pope. With 1.4 billion Catholics throughout the world, the pope is ...

US Catholicism knows Jews well, and that familiarity may pave the way for the new pope to improve Jewish-Catholic relations, ...

The first US pontiff in the Catholic Church's history has spoken about his namesake Pope Leo XIII's social policies, ...

While it is interesting and perhaps even a point of pride that the new Pope Leo XIV was born in the United States, most of ...