While Protestant voices were divided between oppressors and revivalist abolitionists, the Catholic Church’s stance on slavery in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries was more complex — a ...

When St. John Henry Newman is proclaimed a doctor of the church on Nov. 1, staff and students at his old university will be counting on a boost of confidence for Oxford's once-excluded Catholics.

A top American cardinal has celebrated a traditional Latin Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica with the explicit permission of Pope ...

A top American cardinal has celebrated a traditional Latin Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica with the explicit permission of Pope ...

King Charles III participated in a public worship service with Pope Leo XIV during a service to the Vatican on Thursday, ...

Last week, Pope Leo XIV introduced a significant reform to the financial architecture of the Holy See. With the motu proprio Coniuncta Cura, (“Shared Responsibility”) the Holy Father revoked the ...

In a ceremonial throne room at the Vatican last week, Pope Leo stood before a group of visiting American Bishops and Catholic leaders as they played video messages from migrants in the United States.

Pope Leo recalled that human existence is full of contrasts — joy, sadness, gratitude, and stress — but that only in the Risen Christ does the heart find the fullness it seeks. Pope Leo XIV waves from ...

The Pope got one Cubs fan good. During an appearance at the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV, a diehard White Sox fan, spent a moment taking a witty jab at his team’s crosstown rival, as shown in a clip from ...

In taking the name Leo XIV, the first American pope signaled a desire to imitate his much-beloved 19th-century predecessor Leo XIII. The previous Leo forged the Catholic response to industrialization; ...

The apostolic exhortation "Dilexi Te" ("I Have Loved You") on the church's love for the poor, "is Pope Leo's document. It is the magisterium of the church," although Pope Leo himself wrote that it was ...

The message signaled a continuation of one of the priorities of his predecessor, Francis. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Vatican City Pope Leo XIV placed the poor at the core of the Christian ...