Like most people, Msgr. Joseph Prior watched the election of Pope Leo XIV with great interest. He noted how the people in Rome represented the diversity of the universal Church, a theme reflected in ...

How Pope Leo XIV chooses to tackle critical topics from same-sex marriage to women in the church remains to be seen, but ...

Robert Francis Prevost was chosen on Thursday, May 8, to succeed Pope Francis as the head of the Catholic Church.

The new pope is Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost— and will be known to the world as Leo XIV — after he was elected Thursday in ...