"Even though we didn’t actually see the smoke or see the new pope, the feeling of being there, it was in everybody's heart.

Pool photo by Kenny Holston Still, Catholic doctrine does not map ... Italy. Pope Francis, who was born in Argentina, never returned to his own home country as pope, and he visited the United ...

Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary, after invoking the feast day of Our Lady of Pompei ...

not that Pope Leo XIV of the United States has been elected. Of the 266 Popes to lead the Catholic Church, 217, or 81% of them were Italian with Italy’s dominance in the papacy reflecting the ...

Who will be the new Pope? It's a search trend that has continued on Google since Francis's death and the start of the conclave ...

Pope Leo XIV's church is growing steadily, but its believers are no longer concentrated on the continent where it was born.

A résumé of deep religious education, frontline pastoral experience, parish management and Vatican governance — along with a ...

Europa Universalis V is the long-awaited sequel to Europa Universalis IV, one of the decade's most acclaimed grand strategy ...

The last three popes each chose very different paths between Rome and home—sometimes confrontational, sometimes aloof.

Attila had crossed into Italy with his coalition ... Born Bruno of Egisheim, Pope Leo IX became the leader of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States, the territory in and around Rome ...

In his public appearance as pope, Leo called himself an Augustinian, putting an unusual spotlight on his religious order.