In 2024, there were roughly 35,000 nuns in the United States, an 80% decrease from 1965, when there were about 175,000.

What an extraordinary time the last few weeks have been for the overwhelmingly positive media coverage the Catholic Church ...

Pope Francis made a strong moral case for addressing climate change and respecting Indigenous rights. Will Pope Leo do the same?

For Vatican experts, the election of American Robert Francis Prevost Martinez as the new pope sends clear political and symbolic signals both within and outside the Catholic world ...

Pope Leo XIV's life has moved between north and south, grassroots ministry and Roman governance, pastoral accompaniment and ...

Rather than a return to Catholic cultural wars, Leo can tackle basics issues of faith and humanity.

Peruvians have celebrated the election of a man many knew as a missionary and bishop during his 2 decades of service in the ...

I was sitting in my dorm room at Limestone College in Gaffney, S.C., skipping classes so I could watch the funeral of Pope John Paul II. As an aspiring church musician from the rural South, I was ...

Pope Leo XIV prays at the tomb of Pope Francis in Rome’s Basilica of St. Mary Major on May 10, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) Less than 48 hours after being elected, Pope Leo XIV got in the front ...

Pope Leo XIV has echoed his predecessor’s urgent call for an end to the assault that has killed more than 52,000 Palestinians.

As we celebrate Pope Leo XIV, it would be a tragedy to forget one of the greatest concerns of Pope Francis' final years and days: the war in Gaza.

After the liberal Pope Francis years, conservative Catholics might welcome the cultural shift that Leo XIV’s election signals ...