I’m praying for this new pope from the United States who has roots in the 7th Ward. That was a mind-blowing moment for me,’ ...

How will Pope Leo XIV deal with the Catholic bishops in the US who resisted the pastoral priorities set by his Argentine ...

Previously, he served as the Diocesan Administrator in the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux since January 2024, following the death ...

THUMBS UP. Jari Honora, a historian and genealogist at The Historic New Orleans Collection, in early May discovered Pope Leo ...

A New Orleans committee announced the remains of 19 Black Americans whose skulls were taken to Leipzig, Germany, in the 1880s ...

I am humbled beyond words that the Holy Father has chosen me, not from outside, but from among the ranks of the priests of ...

Father Becket Franks, a seminary schoolmate of Pope Leo XIV, has known him for 56 years and has seen the beginnings of his ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope ... history's first American pope. Freed from their conclave, cardinals began describing the days and hours leading up to the final ballot Thursday afternoon that brought Leo ...

was elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church. Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order, took the name Leo XIV. In his first words as ...

Leo noted St. John Eudes as the first to celebrate liturgical worship of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, St. John Mary Vianney ...

The discovery that the first U.S.-born pope has black and Creole roots is a finding that illustrates the nation’s rich, ...

When someone accepts election as pontiff, there undergoes a change in that individual, not only in life purpose in leading ...