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

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 has made waves with some of his fashion choices, returning to much of the traditional pomp of popes past ...

If anyone still had a single doubt about where the Pope’s allegiance lies between Chicago’s two bastions of baseball, that ...

Father Marko Rupnik is seen with a mosaic from Krakow, Poland. (photo: Waldemar Sowinski / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 / ...

Pope Leo XIV will revive a tradition begun by St. John Paul II in 1983 by personally placing a pallium around the shoulders ...

Through a distant maternal ancestor, who was born in the 1590s, Pope Leo is ninth cousins, various times removed, with some ...

We are very hopeful; you perceive a lot of enthusiasm, anyway, whether from brother priests or from the people of God,” newly ...

Pope Leo XIV waves after walking onto the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican May 8, 2025, following his election during the conclave. He is the first American pope and the first ...

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

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 ...