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

Three recent X posts from then-Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago - now Pope Leo XIV - shared items critical of Trump and Vance policies.

To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the historian R.W. Southern once offered ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

Catholic cardinals who will choose the next pope filed into the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, before locking themselves away from the world to elect the man they hope can unite a diverse but divided ...

The deal aimed to quash the primary source of contention, the appointment of bishops, which is a modern-day form of the Medieval ... Catholic, I hope, as a priest, Bishop, and Cardinal, to have ...

Pope Leo XIV says he chose the name in honor of Leo XIII, connecting his predecessor’s focus on workers during the industrial ...

NBC 10's Gene Valicenti talks with medieval scholar Joëlle Rollo-Koster of the University of Rhode Island about the election of Pope Leo XIV. Cardinal ... history of the Catholic Church.

had cited medieval-era Catholic teaching to justify the United States' new immigration policy under Trump. In 2015, Prevost posted a link to a Washington Post opinion piece titled "Cardinal Dolan ...

White smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel on Thursday and the bells of St. Peter's rang out, signalling that cardinals have ...

We also saw the memorial slab, beneath which the cardinal’s heart is ... to a display of the title page from a medieval edition of Nicholas’ “The Catholic Concordance.” ...