In the moment, the man who will go on to become the most recognizable religious leader in the world looks nervous. He looks ...

Pope Leo XIV, the Chicago-bred pontiff, was seen sporting a Chicago White Sox hat on Wednesday as he greeted people at the Vatican. Among those he met were a bride and groom who also appeared to be ...

COMMENTARY: Blessed Iuliu Hossu was characterized by Pope Leo XIV as a 'a man of faith who knows that the gates of evil will not prevail against God’s work...' ...

By then, Considine had become head of the U.S. bishops’ Latin America Bureau. He worked with the onetime Catholic priest and ...

When white smoke billowed out from the stovepipe chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, most people were watching from their screens, but Bishop Robert Barron of the Winona-Rochester Diocese had a front row ...

When Pope Francis died, questions about his successor were all over the news. Every Catholic waited with bated breath on who the new head of the Catholic Church will be. The names of Asians and ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo ... agreement." Leo presided over his first Mass before those same cardinal electors Friday morning, speaking off-the-cuff in English in the Sistine Chapel.

The Vatican wanted a complete makeover of the vatican.va website. The catch was it had to be ready to launch with the ...

A Mankato native who spent most of his journalism career covering the Vatican provided some dope on popes, his review of a ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope ... the only hope I had coming here was to see the inside of the Sistine Chapel," he said. "Seeing the pope was not scheduled ...