The new pope was hearkening back to his predecessor Leo XIII, a pivotal figure who ruled the Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903. If Cardinal Prevost had chosen for his name Francis II, or John Paul ...

Carlo Acutis, an Italian teenager, was meant to be made a saint in April, but the ceremony was postponed because of Pope ...

The last pope to take the name Leo was Pope Leo XIII, who lead the Church from 1878 until his death ... Sunday's mass began inside St. Peter’s Basilica before moving to the chapel of the Tomb of Saint ...

“There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question in the context of the first great Industrial Revolutio ...

At one month since his election to the papacy May 8, Pope Leo XIV has so far demonstrated a continuity with his predecessor, ...

The last pope to take the name Leo was Pope Leo XIII, who lead the Church from 1878 ... s Basilica before moving to the chapel of the Tomb of Saint Peter. There, the new pontiff paused to pray ...