When still a cardinal, the new pope led discussions on key issues facing the church during which “every voice had equal value ...

Pope Francis opened the door to the LGBTQ faithful, and they are hoping the new pontiff continues to move the Catholic Church toward acceptance.

Chicago’s South Side was solidly working class during Pope Leo’s childhood, said Rob Paral, a researcher at the Great Cities ...

Philadelphia Filipinos had been rooting for Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle to be the next pope and are disappointed.

Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne speaks about what surprised him about the conclave, praising Pope Leo XIV’s “warmth ...

Astoria's La Guli Pastry Shop debuts the "Pope Leo Cookie" to celebrate the first American Pope, Pope Leo XIV, with locals ...

Who would have thought that Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle’s “first act of charity” to then cardinal, now Pope Leo XIV, Robert Francis Prevost would be giving him a candy? And it’s not just the new pope ...

The expectation is that the new Pope will continue the work of Francis in a different guise, and his name signifies this. Leo ...

In the summer of 1973, the war was still raging in Vietnam, the Watergate scandal was unfolding in Washington, and protests roiled college campuses nationwide. But on leafy Villanova University just ...

Joanne M. Pierce is a professor emerita of religious studies at College of the Holy Cross. Her research interests include ...