Chicago-native Cardinal Robert Prevost was announced as the new Pope on May 8, following Pope Francis’ death on April 21. The 69-year-old took the papal name Leo XIV. Since then, Catholics from ...

VATICAN CITY — Before becoming Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost presided over one of the most revolutionary reforms of Pope Francis' pontificate by having women serve on the Vatican board ...

In recent decades, Popes Paul VI and John Paul II both promulgated solemn decrees reaffirming the church’s age old, unbroken teaching that women cannot be ordained to the priesthood. In ...

Pope Leo XIV meets with Italian Sister Simona Brambilla, prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, at the Vatican May 14, 2025. (Credit: Vatican ...

Only a handful of women allowed to wear white to Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration — here’s why everyone else must dress in black By . Fabiana Buontempo. Published May 18, 2025, 5:09 p.m. ET.

Women’s role. As a Catholic mother of two daughters, we prayed for the cardinals as they selected a new pope. We’re asking that the new pope, Leo XIV, continue Pope Francis’s efforts to ...

One of their classmates was Robert Prevost, who was named pope last week. As Leo XIV, ... “He would have certainly listened and not judged,” he said of Leo’s reaction to the women’s efforts.

Before becoming Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost presided over one of the most revolutionary reforms of Pope Francis’ pontificate by having women serve on the Vatican board that vets ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Before becoming Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost presided over one of the most revolutionary reforms of Pope Francis' pontificate by having women serve on the Vatican ...