When someone accepts election as pontiff, there undergoes a change in that individual, not only in life purpose in leading ...

Pope Leo XIV has seen and experienced the Church in more contexts than perhaps any other person currently living...’ ...

The Roman Catholic Church’s first American pope is likely to continue many priorities of his predecessor, the late Pope ...

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Written by Matthew Bunson, vice president and editorial director at EWTN News, it is the first authoritative biographical ...

On May 8, Father Thomas Joseph White, the American rector of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, was at St. Peter's Square with hundreds of thousands of people when white smoke rose out ...

Heinlein, OSV News Following the April 21 death of Pope Francis, a great curiosity hovered across the world as the College of ...

The Vatican unveiled Pope Leo XIV’s official portrait and signature Saturday, revealing the American pontiff’s embrace of traditional papal elements just two days after his historic election.

Pope Benedict XVI greets the future Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican Gardens. Credit: Courtesy of the Augustinian Midwest Province (USA). Our Mother of Good Counsel. Finally, on Sept. 30, 2023 ...

and Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) contributed to a substantial sum of the Council’s documents. All of these pontiffs may then, in some respect, be considered “innovators ...

Pope Benedict XVI paid homage to Benedict XV, who led the church during World War I, but also to St. Benedict of Nursia, who founded the Benedictine Order and influenced the spread of Christianity ...

The first hint of the new pope's direction has come with the name ... brotherhood and care of the environment. One of Benedict XVI’s priorities was trying to revive the faith in Europe.