But for many Creoles at the turn of the 20th century, much like the Pope’s family, that sense of place was no longer enough to sustain them. As Jim Crow hardened in Louisiana, living there felt ...

Pope Leo has been noncommittal on opening the diaconate to women, citing the church's "very significant and long tradition" of male-only clergy, but many women aspiring to be deacons are ready to ...

Pope Leo XIV is starting a six-week vacation this weekend at the papal summer retreat south of Rome. It's his first break since his historic election in May. People who know and work with Leo ...

Online genealogists found that Pope Leo’s paternal grandparents in Chicago were accused of having an “illicit affair” in the 1910s, adding another layer to the pope’s complex family history.

Even in his choice of a name, Pope Leo signals that he is a man of the 20th-century American Church committed to challenging the social problems of this age with the tools provided by his faith ...

Those who’ve worked with Pope Leo XIV are optimistic he’ll elevate women’s roles — with limits Catholic women do much of the church’s work in schools and hospitals and are usually ...

Inside Vatican City, the home of Pope Leo, lies a vast collection of Indigenous artifacts that some people say shouldn’t be there. The collection includes thousands of colonial-era objects ...

The shy 69-year-old Augustinian missionary has eschewed the headline-grabbing protagonism of past pontiffs in favor of a quieter, less showy and more reserved way of being pope.