The papacy, an institution stretching back nearly two millennia, represents one of history's longest unbroken lines of ...

The tradition of popes taking new names upon their election is one of the most recognizable customs in the Roman Catholic Church.

It is common that upon the death of a Pope, comments arise recalling his pontificate—some positive, others not so much. But ...

Catholics suffer from widespread ignorance of important, historical precedents of both female and lay ecclesial leadership.

When Robert Prevost took the name Leo XIV after being elected pope on 8 May, much was read into the reference this made to Leo XIII, a late 19th-century reformer and champion of social justice ...

Pope Leo XIV laid out the vision of his papacy Saturday (May 10), making clear that he will follow in the modernizing reforms of Pope Francis to make the Catholic Church inclusive, attentive to ...

Cardinal Wilton Daniel Gregory ... is expected to continue Francis’ reforms of the church as well as his focus on poverty and marginalized people. “In Pope Leo we have a pastor of proven ...

A new pope was elected by the conclave this week and for the first time a pope from the U.S. was chosen. Robert Prevost, Chicago-born missionary, was chosen as the 267th pontiff to lead the ...

“We didn’t expect an American to be Pope,” Gregory Treverton, a USC Professor, said. Treverton is a professor of international relations at the University of Southern California and a former ...