The U.S.-born pope spent about a dozen years as a missionary in Peru and returned there later to serve as a bishop.

Apocalyptic questions demand apocalyptic answers: Stay awake. Strengthen what remains. Learn to say, “Come, Lord Jesus.” ...

Historical evidence clearly shows that Islam was the first major religion to arrive in what is now known as Nigeria, ...

Pope Leo XIV is vowing to actively promote and protect the spirituality and traditions of the eastern rite churches, those ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering ...

I stared at the sun. It really hurt. Yet, as I stumbled down Prez Lawn barefoot (#freethefoot) with holes burned into my ...

I join millions of Catholics and good people on planet earth to congratulate Pope Leo XIV on his historic election as the new ...

WE have reached the penultimate city, Glasgow, in this series about the ancient history of each of the eight cities ...

Pope Leo XIV is the first Pope from the Order of St. Augustine, which suggests he will promote peace and dialogue.

Cardinal Prevost's choice of the name Leo links him to Leo XIII, a 19th-century champion of social justice. It also recalls ...

The Council of Nicaea in the year 325 was, arguably, the most theologically significant and influential gathering of ...

AD 203, a young woman named Vibia Perpetua stepped into a Roman arena in Carthage, North Africa. The crowd jeered, wild ...