In his first speech from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica on May 8, Leo said the cardinals chose him “to be the successor ...

Pope Leo serves as an important check on our spirit. His presence most assuredly reminds people of God and that the Lord is ...

Parish churches in the Catholic Diocese of Charlotte will no longer offer Traditional Latin Mass starting in July. Bishop ...

The last three popes each chose very different paths between Rome and home—sometimes confrontational, sometimes aloof.

The 133 cardinal electors sequestered in the Sistine Chapel elected a new pope May 8. The choice was a surprise — ...

The modality for choosing a PopeTHE election of a Pope, known as the papal conclave, is one of the most solemn and secretive procedures in the world. Rooted in centuries of tradition and canon law, ...

Odds-makers likely had an easier time 20 years ago, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger stepped onto the balcony overlooking St.

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff, will be formally inaugurated on Sunday with a mass in St. Peter’s Square.

Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass with the College of ... 2012 during the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI. It now comes in nine languages — English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Polish, ...

Pope Benedict XVI had loosened restrictions on celebrations of the Latin Mass, which was used for centuries before the modernizing reforms of the 1960s Second Vatican Council, which allowed the ...

Do we know why, despite Summorum Pontificum and his love for a reverent liturgy, Benedict XVI never celebrated the traditional Latin Mass in public? True, he’d celebrated the Traditional Latin ...

Pope Benedict XVI was hailed Friday at a memorial Mass at St. Agnes Cathedral as a ... where he met with bishops from Latin America, where “Liberation Theology” was spreading rapidly among ...