“I think about corn dogs and hot dogs.” But now that Chicago can claim a pope, Izworska believes this papal association might improve the city’s image on the international scene. Maria ...

Ever since news broke that the new American-born pope is from Chicago, researchers and hobbyists have wasted no time digging into historical records to learn more about the pope’s roots.

Today, the doctoral dissertation that Robert Prevost produced in the mid-1980s is one of the most detailed glimpses into the early intellectual life of the man who became Pope Leo XIV this month.

VATICAN CITY — Two weeks after ascending the throne of Saint Peter, the first pope from the United States is being floated by world leaders for another pivotal role: peacemaker between Ukraine ...

In an interview with the Daily Compass portal on Thursday, Cardinal William Goh, the archbishop of Singapore, said he hopes for greater doctrinal clarity from Pope Leo XIV. “If we are not ...

This new initiative invites the faithful to raise their voices in song alongside Pope Leo XIV, who has done so himself several times since his election. Pope Leo XIV sings the Regina Caeli from ...

Mr. Burke, who was a spokesman for Pope Francis, teaches communications at IESE Business School in Barcelona. In 2016, I was working with a team in the Vatican to put Pope Francis on Instagram.

Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first U.S.-born leader of the Catholic Church elevated him to the extremely rare, and legally thorny, position of being an American citizen who now is also a ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Pope Leo XIV during the formal inauguration of his pontificate in St. Peter’s Square. Gregorio Borgia/AP Share ROME — Last week, Stephen Colbert ...

Just as Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II worked to defeat the USSR, Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV can confront Putin’s Russia. In recent history, the most influential pope in global politics ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first pope to come from the Order of St. Augustine (OSA), made a visit very early in his pontificate to the Shrine of the Mother of Good Counsel in Genazzano, Italy, near Rome ...

On Wednesday, Pope Leo XIV — who was elected to the position earlier this month — used his first-ever General Audience in St. Peter’s Basilica to call on Israel to release aid into Gaza.