Who can mistake the child-like appeal of movies like The Goonies and television shows like The Librarians where there are no ...

Cardinal Wilton Gregory, the first African American cardinal and former Atlanta archbishop, shares his experience in the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV.

VATICAN CITY — Pope ... the great responsibility they had placed on him before delivering a brief but dense homily in Italian on the need to joyfully spread Christianity in a world that often ...

Pope Leo XIV “is the man the church and the world need right now” and his greatest challenge, “the one he’ll carry most in ...

As white smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel chimney at 6:08 p.m. May 8 in Vatican City, University of Iowa Catholic Studies ...

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

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That’s where Father Bob — the future Pope Leo XIV — sat for Game 1 of the 2005 World Series ... described the future pope as a great guy and kindhearted. “A lot of this is about the ...

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American ... so that the church could be a force for peace in the world.“I would like that our first great desire be for a united church, a sign of unity and ...

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.

“And now it’s the first topic of a pope,” he said in an interview at his monastery this week. As a cardinal and head of the Vatican office that selects and manages bishops around the ...