Pope Leo has confirmed all top Vatican officials in their current roles on a temporary basis, giving him time to decide ...

Among the regular pilgrims, tourists and assorted onlookers were groups of nuns. There are around 600,000 Catholic nuns ...

When Villanova University's president, the Rev. Peter Donohue, was nearing graduation as a theatre student, a future pope ...

The two clerics met in South America, and when Francis needed to fill an important job at the Vatican, he knew where to turn.

Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful ...

A charter company is inviting travelers to fly in divine style on a direct route from Pope Leo XIV’s native Chicago to ...

The Villanova Wildcats are now proudly represented in Manhattan and Vatican City. After Thursday’s Conclave in the Vatican’s ...

(RNS) — The Holy Spirit surprised us Thursday (May 8) by electing Robert Prevost, an Illinois native who is also a citizen of ...

In that moment, Pope Leo XIV wasn't a stranger from Chicago; he was our pastor, instantly embraced by the global Catholic ...

One cardinal who cast his ballot said the pope’s choice of the papal name Leo might signal a particular interest in workers’ ...

A lot of my friends are calling it the Villanova Vatican,” said Caroline Pirtle, a Villanova University junior who interned at the Vatican this semester and just returned home to Minneapolis Thursday ...

Prior to his election as Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost's social media activity suggested criticism of President Donald Trump's ...