Three recent X posts from then-Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago - now Pope Leo XIV - shared items critical of Trump and Vance policies.

To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the historian R.W. Southern once offered ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

The deal aimed to quash the primary source of contention, the appointment of bishops, which is a modern-day form of the Medieval ... Catholic, I hope, as a priest, Bishop, and Cardinal, to have ...

NBC 10's Gene Valicenti talks with medieval scholar Joëlle Rollo-Koster of the University of Rhode Island about the election of Pope Leo XIV. Cardinal ... history of the Catholic Church.

Catholic cardinals who will choose the next pope filed into the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, before locking themselves away from the world to elect the man they hope can unite a diverse but divided ...

US President Donald Trump congratulated Pope Leo on his election to head the Catholic ... voting by the 133 cardinal electors, who secluded themselves behind the Vatican's medieval walls on ...

Catholic cardinals gather and sequester themselves in the Vatican for the start of a conclave to elect a new pope.

Pope Leo XIV says he chose the name in honor of Leo XIII, connecting his predecessor’s focus on workers during the industrial ...

White smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel on Thursday and the bells of St. Peter's rang out, signalling that cardinals have ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, an American, has been named the new pope of the Catholic Church, USA TODAY reports. The successor to Pope Francis, who will go by the name Leo XIV, goes down in ...