One of the greatest challenges facing Pope Leo XIV is financial. He has inherited the Holy See’s chronic, 50 million to 60 ...

University of Dayton Associate Professor of Religious Studies and author of The Look of Catholics: Portrayals in Popular ...

By celebrating together this Nicene faith and by proclaiming it together, we will also advance towards the restoration of ...

When I first read the news in Facebook that Pope Leo XIV, an American-born clergyman, had ascended to the papacy, I knew that the Catholic Church had entered a ...

Suddenly I heard the most beautiful noise I have ever heard in my life: the sound of tens of thousands of people cheering as ...

his math degree from Villanova and the possible implications for sports teams. Here’s a look at some of the internet’s funniest memes and tweets about the new pope.

“I also laughed out loud simultaneously, for the possibility of an American being elected had been preventively ... Both Eire and McNulty discussed the various implications that the election of Pope ...

The first American pope, Leo XIV, is expected to bring a ... To take that stance (against those laws), absolutely it has political implications, but it's not a political stance," Flowers said.

In fact, the American pope chose his name in part because he ... Nonetheless, the Church’s teachings do have implications for public policy. And given that prelates don’t have the same sort ...

A POPE FOR EVERYONE — In the first days of his papacy, Pope Leo XIV has taken considerable pains to present himself as a unifier for a Catholic Church internally divided over key liturgical and ...

The first American pope is succeeding a church leader whose ... and comfortable with the larger implications of Trump's attacks on stability, the rule of law, etc." Trump, for his part, issued ...