Since Pope Leo XIV took up the papacy, scholars have been looking closely at his fashion, and his attitude towards traditional customs, to see how he might differ from his predecessor.

The world’s smallest country has a big budget problem.   The Vatican doesn’t tax its residents or issue bonds. It primarily ...

Fitzgerald, who spent his career in real estate private equity, said American donors — especially the younger generation — ...

In one of his memorable comments on the current state of Europe, the late Pope Francis expressed the wish that in a world gripped by turmoil and war the old continent becomes a field hospital for ...

Even more significant than these “firsts,” I believe, is a “second”: Leo follows in Pope Francis’ footsteps as a priest shaped by the Latin American church. The new pontiff served the ...

Just months before his death, Pope Francis himself was treated for five weeks in hospital after suffering with pneumonia. In a statement announcing his death, Cardinal Kevin Ferrell of the Vatican ...

On Thursday, Robert Francis Prevost was elected pope ... first as a missionary and then as an archbishop. Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, center, leaves after concelebrating Mass with the College ...

“Pope Francis leaves us with a legacy of hope … Not only did he preach ... “The Church is not a museum for saints, but a hospital for sinners.” Francis did not directly invite all to communion, but ...

By Patricia Mazzei Reporting from Rome In 2023, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was a delegate to a global assembly of bishops, convened by Pope Francis, when discussion turned to whether women ...

The late Pope Francis donated all his remaining money to a youth rehabilitation project inside a Roman prison in one of his final acts as the head of the Roman Catholic Church. Before his death ...