Leo XIII is known as the social justice pope because of encyclical, Rerum Novarum. This “Magna Carta of Social Justice” was ...

From saints and scholars to fearless reformers, these popes didn’t just shape Church history — they shaped my life of faith.

News that the global Catholic Church would get its first U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholic students at Princeton and ...

“It was just so crazy,” she said. Father Gregory Sakowicz, the cathedral's rector, said that when the new pope was announced, the sun came out — a coincidence he described as “God’s way ...

The former Cardinal Robert Prevost vowed to work for unity. “I think he will inspire,” said Susan Hanssen, a professor who was born in Chicago and just arrived in Rome to teach.

The pallium, draped across his shoulders, symbolizes the pastor carrying his flock as the pope carries the faithful. The ring, which becomes Leo ... two young people. Gregory and Susan Hudak ...

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, vowed Sunday to work for unity so that the Catholic Church becomes a sign of ... participating in the rite.Gregory and Susan Hudak, who lived for ...