For the first time since the 16th century, the monarch of England and the bishop of Rome prayed together last week. The step is a gesture of ecumenical friendship, according to two British Catholic ...

History was made in the Sistine Chapel on Thursday as Pope Leo XIV and King Charles III prayed side by side, marking the first time since the Protestant Reformation that a reigning British monarch and ...

King Charles III and Queen Camilla of the United Kingdom were received in a private audience by Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace this morning, Oct. 23, during a state visit to the Holy ...

ROME – Penguin Random House announced Monday that notoriously media-shy Pope Leo XIV has given his first-ever papal interview to Crux Senior Correspondent Elise Ann Allen as part of her new biography ...

The Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus takes on special significance this year, centenary year of the extension of the feast to the whole world. The Church, with traditional prudence and reserve, did ...

Pope Leo XIV, in a meeting with cardinals two days after his election, explained that he chose that name as an acknowledgment of the similarities of our own time with those of Pope Leo XIII. He ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

Vatican City — Pope Leo XIV says he chose his papal name as a nod to the Catholic Church‘s last Leo, who stood as a source of stability and guidance during the industrial revolution. The newly-elected ...

(RNS) — In taking the name Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost — Father Bob to American Catholics and Padre Roberto to his Peruvian flock — linked his pontificate to a monumental figure, Pope Leo XIII, ...

(The Conversation) — Every pope brings a distinct vision and agenda for leading the church. Making change is difficult in the Catholic Church, but Francis’ actions might have paved the way. (The ...

It was long assumed that an American pope was an impossibility. Vatican insiders would dismiss the idea of a pope from the world’s preeminent superpower as completely out of the question and barely ...