Italy, a key player in the creation of the European Union, born from the rejection of nationalism after World War II, has ...

The man who is now known as Leo XIV becomes the 267th Bishop of Rome and the successor to Francis, one of the most liberal ...

Marcellus II and his 16th-century predecessor Adrian VI (reigned 1522-1523) are the only popes since 996 to keep their given ...

Leo XIII (1878–1903), the first pope of the 20th century, took bold stances on the major social issues of his time and laid ...

In Peru, Pope Leo XIV is known as the saintly missionary who waded through mud after torrential rains flooded the region, ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American Pope and second pontiff from the Americas, is a former leader of the Augustinians and a ...

He endured difficult years, but his adversaries also fell into internal discord, and when Octavian defeated Mark Antony, finally imposing peace, the new leader founded a different regime under which ...

VILLANOVA, Pa. (WPVI) -- Pope Leo XIV, formerly known as Cardinal Robert Prevost, has a strong tie to the Philadelphia region ...

Over an hour after the white smoke emerged, the new pope, clad in his papal vestments, stepped out onto the balcony and ...

The Swiss Guard, the pope’s iconic bodyguards, look ceremonial but in the pageantry of the Renaissance-style uniform lies the answer to why they will be protecting the Sistine Chapel on May 7 as ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful ...

Augustinians are part of the Mendicant Movement, which was characterized by a mixed or middle way among religious, in which a life of contemplation is combined with a life of apostolic ministry, and ...