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

Being religious does not automatically mean someone is compassionate, and yet for a Christian compassion is a clear sign of ...

Online genealogists found that Pope Leo’s paternal grandparents in Chicago were accused of having an “illicit affair” in the 1910s, adding another layer to the pope’s complex family history.

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.

Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. In the weeks since Pope Francis’s passing, the internet has been flooded by papal memes, election ...

Pope Leo XIV’s conservative brother said in an interview this week that while the new pontiff is "much more liberal than I am," he's not "woke." Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected as the first ...

Pope Leo XIV made his first social media post on Tuesday in which he sent a message of peace, as he seeks to maintain an active social media presence through the official papal accounts. The ...

Six hundred years later, Pope Gregory VII forced the brilliant monarch of the Holy Roman Empire, Henry IV, to walk barefoot in the snow for miles before granting him forgiveness at Canossa ...

Cleaning up social media accounts while job hunting took an all new meaning following the election of Pope Leo XIV, who wiped his personal accounts and made his first official post as pontiff this ...

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There's a new person with the "Most Famous American" title, and for once, it's not the president — it's Chicago native Robert Francis Prevost, who now goes by Pope Leo XIV. ALBERTO PIZZOLI / AFP ...

Last Thursday, white smoke emerged from a chimney at the Sistine Chapel, signaling that cardinals had elected a new pope. That's a rare event in itself, but one of the many unprecedented aspects ...