As pope, Leo XIV has focused clearly on peace policy, swiftly addressing the Ukraine and Gaza wars. He thus joins the ...

The papacy, an institution stretching back nearly two millennia, represents one of history's longest unbroken lines of ...

The tradition of popes taking new names upon their election is one of the most recognizable customs in the Roman Catholic Church. This practice dates back more than a millennium and carries deep ...

Every pope — and indeed every baptized Catholic ... We have witnessed it in several popes with burning missionary zeal, like Gregory XV, who founded the Society of the Sacred Congregation ...

Six hundred years later, Pope Gregory VII forced the brilliant monarch of the Holy Roman Empire, Henry IV, to walk barefoot in the snow for miles before granting him forgiveness at Canossa ...

Pope Leo was spotted at the 2005 World Series, a rare moment of triumph for the pride of Chicago’s South Side. By David Waldstein David Waldstein reported from Pope Leo’s childhood home in ...

“We didn’t expect an American to be Pope,” Gregory Treverton, a USC Professor, said. Treverton is a professor of international relations at the University of Southern California and a former ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been announced as the new pontiff and has chosen the name Pope Leo XIV. There are no written ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican's powerful office of bishops ...

Because of the antipopes, there are 21 Johns, but no Pope John XX, and eight Bonifaces but no Pope Boniface VII. John and Gregory are the ... Pointing to Benedict XV, who had guided the church ...

The first Conclave was held in 1276 in Arezzo, Tuscany, in 1276 with the election of Innocent V. In 1621, Pope Gregory XV introduced the requirement for secret and written ballots. In 1904, Pius X ...