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

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

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

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff, has Creole roots. That is raising awareness about the complexity of the Creole ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...