Cardinal Robert F. Prevost's selection of the name Pope Leo XIV was an apparent nod to Pope Leo XIII, the father of Catholic ...

Following Pope Francis’s passing on April 21 and the election of Pope Leo on May 8, many people have wondered where the highest authority in the Catholic Church lives. Since 1870, more than a dozen ...

It’s just remarkable to see someone I know as the pope,” said the Rev. Joe Roccasalva, an Augustinian priest who grew up in ...

The election of Cardinal Robert F. Prevost as Pope Leo XIV, the 266th successor of Peter, shows “truly God was at work” in ...

Last week was quite special for the estimated 1.2 billion Catholics around the world when white smoke billowed across St.

Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first U.S. pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church, previously led a Catholic ...

Fr. Gregory Ramon Gaston, rector at the Pontificio Collegio Filippino in Rome, has shared his insights on what makes a good ...

The order, formed in the 13th century and based on the ... Before Francis, the last pope from a religious order was Gregory XVI, a Benedictine Camaldolese monk who was pope from 1831 to 1846 ...

"I think Pope Leo [XIV] is a wise, wise man, and he picks up one whose name has multiple figures from Leo the Great to Leo the 13th ... Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington ...

Leo could also refer to Brother Leo, the 13th century ... of the pope who had elevated them to cardinal. John was the most popular, chosen by 23 popes, followed by Benedict and Gregory, each ...

Prevost, 69, who chose the name Pope Leo XIV, was formerly the prior general, or leader, of the Order of St. Augustine, which was formed in the 13th century ... one was Gregory XVI, a Camaldolese ...