Francis tenaciously clung to the challenging words of the gospel, which were the lens through which he viewed the world. We ...

PORT CHARLOTTE — A day before the conclave to elect a new pope, Louis Prevost called his younger brother, Robert Prevost, from over 5,000 miles away in Southwest Florida and jokingly brainstormed ...

As a Catholic who attends the traditional Latin Mass, I love Pope Leo XIV; all Catholics have a duty to render filial love ...

The Sistine Chapel is named after Sixtus IV, who became pope in 1471 and commissioned its construction as the primary chapel of the papal court. It has been posited, though there are skeptics ...

Commentators have already noted that the last Pope Leo (XIII) was known for his devotion to social justice and the Virgin Mary. However, there is a longer history of popes called Leo — there have been ...

“He comes out with, ‘I'm thinking about Sixtus,’” Louis said. “He went, ‘I’m gonna be Pope Sixtus the sixth.’” When the white smoke poured out of St. Peter’s Basilica last ...

Although it is the official residence, Pope Francis does not reside in the Apostolic Palace and chooses the papal apartment instead ...

The papal apartment, which is a series of rooms wrapping around the Vatican’s Sixtus V Courtyard, was the traditional home of pontiffs for over a century before Pope Francis eschewed those ...

“But it’s definitely a historic, interesting event.” The Sistine Chapel, built by Pope Sixtus and famous for its ceiling and rear wall frescoes painted by Michelangelo, has been the ...

Pope Sixtus VII, will soon begin the formal responsibilities of his office. His name choice, Leo XIV revives a papal title that has not been used since 1878.