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

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

When someone accepts election as pontiff, there undergoes a change in that individual, not only in life purpose in leading ...

Born Robert Francis Prevost and raised in Chicago, he is the first American to ascend to the papacy. He is a product of an ...

As pope, Leo XIV has focused clearly on peace policy, swiftly addressing the Ukraine and Gaza wars. He thus joins the ...

When the pope died, the clergy and people of Rome immediately elected Gregory. Gregory applied his Roman genius for ...

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

Pope Leo XIV, an American and a global citizen, can be a strong advocate for the First Amendment’s protection of freedom of ...

Six hundred years later, Pope Gregory VII forced the brilliant monarch ... as an institution, embodied the teachings of Christ and had to be protected against the usurpations and corruptions ...

The motto of one newly elected American world leader: " Fight! " The other introduced himself to the world with his first ...

Cardinal Wilton Gregory, the retired archbishop ... said the new pope will challenge Americans by emphasizing Catholic social teaching’s call for “the state to have a role in social life ...