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

Being a devoted Catholic on a mostly secular campus can be challenging; Swantek says he’s never felt “more needed as a priest ...

S tanding in front of the cascade of crimson curtains on the balcony of Saint Peter’s on the evening of May 8, with an ...

Leo, the first American and second Latin American pope, celebrated his inaugural Mass at the Vatican after waving to the faithful on the popemobile.

In the first week of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate, his preaching and speeches have featured quotations from saints and Church Fathers from St. Ignatius of Antioch to St. Gregory the Great.

“Even though it is factually true that Leo is the first U.S.-born pope, it makes more sense to think about him as the second pope of ... taken,” said Wilton Gregory, archbishop emeritus ...

Pope Leo XIV greeting the crowd from the balcony ... I have to know the person.” Cardinal Wilton Gregory of the United States also said that Cardinal Prevost had engaged “quite effectively ...

He’s never been pope before,” Cardinal Wilton Gregory, the archbishop emeritus ... That makes him the second consecutive pope from the Americas, as well as a pontiff who had been a member ...

Several prominent U.S. Catholic bishops and cardinals recalled the spiritual process of electing Pope Leo XIV this week, with Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York hailing the new pontiff as a ...

Latest news and live updates as the election process for the next pope continues. The cardinals met for their first conclave ...

Cardinals sequestered in the Sistine Chapel reached a decision on the second day of their conclave ... The conclave that ended with the election of Pope Gregory X on Sept. 1, 1271, took two ...