Bishops often imposed such restrictions — with varying levels of enforcement and typically without warning the public — until the explosive sex-abuse scandal exposed by the Boston Globe in 2002 in the ...

We were waiting with bated breath to see what would happen,” the Very Rev. Anthony Benedetto Pizzo said, speaking from Southern Italy, about his old friend being ...

Pope Leo XIV emphasizes peace, dialogue, and church unity amid current challenges in the Roman Catholic Church.

The newly elected Pope Leo XIV could continue in his predecessor's footprints as the steward of the environment of the Catholic Church.

Vice President JD Vance said this week he didn't want to get political about new pope Leo XIV, calling his election "a great ...

Sister Therese DelGenio taught Pope Leo XIV as he earned a Master of Divinity from the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago.

Before he became Pope Leo XIV, he was just Robert to his older brothers, Louis and John Prevost. Now, the newly elected Pope, ...

Very human, very humble, but very discerning.” This is how Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle described then Cardinal Robert Francis ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - After the Conclave elected the world’s first American Pope, a local college student says she went through Catholic Confirmation at the hands of Pope Leo XIV. Cardinal Robert ...

Local Catholics are happy and thankful for new Pope Leo XIV. The bishop led a special mass to give thanks and praise for the ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV, in remarks in 2012 when he was the Augustinian prior general in Chicago, made comments critical of what he called the “homosexual lifestyle” and the role of mass ...

According to the historians exploring Leo XIV's genetic history, the new pope can trace his lineage to the Afro-Caribbean culture.