On Sunday morning, May 18, a Mass for the beginning of the pontificate of Pope Leo XIV will take place in St. Peter's Square ...

Irish Loreto Sr. Patricia Murray, the executive secretary of the Rome-based International Union of Superiors General, or UISG ...

"May he help end wars in Ukraine, the Middle East, and prevent conflict between India and Pakistan," Ecumenical Patriarch ...

Of course, we are all eager to learn more about the new pope, but this effort to attach significance to things that may be ...

NCR Vatican correspondent Christopher White at work during the synod on synodality in Rome in October 2023 (NCR photo) ...

The top-ranked tennis player visited the new pope on Wednesday, gave him a tennis racket and offered to play, during an off ...

Using synodality, Bishop Shawn McKnight worked his way out of a hymnal mess of his own creation in the Diocese of Jefferson ...

Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, said he expects repercussions against the church for being outspoken in defense of ...

As the Trump administration dismantles climate action and cuts funding to Indigenous peoples around the world — and far-right ...

Amid an immigration enforcement operation in Nashville, Tennessee, that has emptied the pews at several Spanish-speaking ...

Pope Leo XIV, in a meeting with cardinals two days after his election, explained that he chose that name as an acknowledgment ...

NCR analyzed the biographies, background, articles, speeches, homilies and media interviews of members of the College of ...