The Vatican is welcoming more than a thousand social media influencers to Rome this week for an event intended to shape a new ...

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Oklahoma Roman Catholic leaders explore the commonalities between Pope Leo XIV and Blessed Stanley Rother, men who each ...

What can a fifth-century text by St. Augustine tell us about the priorities of the two most powerful American Catholics?

A village in Chicago’s south suburbs is poised to purchase Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home after its board voted ... Leo, known before as Cardinal Robert Prevost, was elected in May as the first ...

The 1,050-square-foot home in Dolton, south Chicago, was bought by the Pope’s parents in 1949. They paid a monthly mortgage of $49 on it and it was owned by the Prevost family for nearly 50 years.

From the very first moments of his papacy, when he addressed the crowd from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, it was clear that Pope Leo XIV would continue the path of openness set by his ...

Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago, was elected after a two-day conclave, becoming the first American to hold the papacy in the Catholic Church’s nearly 2,000-year history.

Every time we perform an act of faith addressed to Jesus, we grow in our connection with Him, and His grace is bestowed ...

Online The Father, the Son and the Hollywood cousins. It turns out, the newly appointed Pope Leo XIV (born Robert Francis Prevost) has an astonishingly celebrity-ridden family tree.