Pope Leo XIV has spoken publicly about the challenges to human dignity, justice and labor that arise from “developments in ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who ...

Pope Leo XIV’s American and Peruvian experience offers a compelling moral and economic lens through which to examine the ...

For many centuries we have seen the custom of a new pope changing his name. It signals the kind of papacy he envisions as he assumes the mantle.

The impact of the news that the new Pope Leo XIV has Louisiana Creole roots in the 7th Ward of New Orleans was palpable even ...

I would suspect that people are very proud that Chicago produced a pope, and it testifies to the fact that there’s a lot of ...

Robert Prevost's ascension to Pope Leo XIV this week is still mind-blowing to Louis Prevost. He said he is equal parts ...

The Chicago-born pontiff—the new spiritual leader of 1.3 billion Catholics and the proprietor in trust of the great art and ...

While it is interesting and perhaps even a point of pride that the new Pope Leo XIV was born in the United States, most of ...

The Rev. Alexander Lam, an Augustinian friar from Peru who knows the new pope, said he was beloved in Peru for his closeness ...

All four of Pope Leo XIV's maternal great-grandparents were ... “It was special for me because I share that heritage and so do many of my friends who are Catholic here in New Orleans ...