After the white smoke cleared, Brown papal historian David Kertzer reflected on the significance of an American pope, how the ...

By then, Considine had become head of the U.S. bishops’ Latin America Bureau. He worked with the onetime Catholic priest and ...

Pope Leo XIV is entitled to a $33K monthly salary, but like his predecessor, he's unlikely to touch it—despite living in full luxury with all expenses covered by the Vatican.

The events that culminated in the May 8 election of Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost as the Catholic Church’s 267th ...

Specifically, Leo’s steadfast commitment to human rights and democratic values, of which he has always been an advocate, suggests a firm basis for a decisive stance should tensions escalate in the ...

The Vatican doesn’t tax its residents or issue bonds, and it's got a very big budget problem. It primarily finances the ...

As a bishop in Peru, Robert Prevost was often on the lookout for used cars that he could buy cheap and fix up himself for use ...

By Jed Nelson There are moments in history that are so important, so joyful or tragic that we remember exactly where we were ...

On the evening of May 8th white smoke poured forth from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, signaling the election of a new pope. Then came the ringing cry – “Habemus Papam” (“We have a Pope”). Then ...

In the first month of his pontificate, Pope Leo repeatedly mentioned various themes "that seem to be the initial lines of his ...

In his first official appointment, Pope Leo named a woman to head a major Vatican office. Sister Simona Brambilla is now the ...

Pope Leo XIV met with members of the Vatican’s child protection advisory commission on Thursday for the first time amid ...