As the first American pope takes the helm, we revisit an open letter published in 1978 by peace activist Blase A. Bonpane to ...

Leo XIV has brought back the papal tradition of vacationing at Castel Gandolfo. So how did a family castle become part of the ...

Pope Leo XIV has extended his vacation at Castel Gandolfo by two days. How does he relax? And what have other popes done with ...

The Jesuits run Hekima University College in Nairobi. Pope Francis was a Jesuit from Argentina in South America, where ‘liberation theology’ had flourished in the 1970s and 1980s.

Over the last few weeks, Pope Leo XIV resumed the tradition of popes spending some part of the summer at the papal residence ...

Consolmagno, who has a prodigious white beard, wavy gray bangs, and dark, beetling eyebrows, is one of fifteen scientists who ...

Pope Leo really is the first Chicago Pope.

Pope Francis will be the fourth pontiff visit the United States. — -- Pope Francis arrives in America today, making him only the fourth pontiff to visit the United States. Pope Paul VI was ...

Since 1978, when John Paul II became the first non-Italian pope in some 450 years, every pontiff has had an ambivalent, often-difficult relationship with his native country.