It is my conclave story captured in one frame: Moments prior to the proclamation extra omnes (outside everyone), I chanced upon a scene from the video coverage...
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On May 7, 2025, the mendicant friar Father Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, son of Louis Marius Prevost and Mildred Agnes Martinez, became Pope Leo XIV. As...
For many Black Catholic communities in the United States, Pope Francis’ life and legacy, as someone who lived out an ethic of “all are welcome,” is “exactly...
From his first address on the balcony of St. Peter’s Square on Thursday evening, Pope Leo XIV has been introducing his theological style to his 1.4 billion...
Just hours after the election of Pope Leo XIV, media discourse was already making much of his Chicago roots, including discussing which sports teams he...
VATICAN CITY––Just a few minutes after Leo XIV, the 267th Bishop of Rome, finished his Urbi et Orbi blessing from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, the...
The election of Cardinal Robert Prevost, O.S.A. as Pope Leo XIV represents a profound milestone in the life of the Catholic Church, with a U.S.-born prelate...
“The whiter it gets, the pope-ier I feel!” shouted Gabriel Carberry. Carberry, 27, who came from the Scottish Highlands to St. Peter’s Square to witness the...
This story will be updated regularly as more information becomes available The Catholic Church has a new pope: Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, O.S.A., 69, of...
In his homily on the morning of May 7, at the votive Mass of the Holy Spirit before the papal conclave began, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the...
