Conservatives are pleased that in his first appearance on the St. Peter’s Basilica balcony he was wearing Pope Benedict XVI’s ...

In his first speech from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica on May 8, Leo said the cardinals chose him “to be the successor ...

The previous Pope Leo emphasized the Catholic Church's responsibility to care for the poor and support workers' rights.

The election of a first North American pontiff came after the death of the first Latin American pope and signaled a relinquishing of papal authority from Europe.

Leo XIII is known as the social justice pope because of encyclical, Rerum Novarum. This “Magna Carta of Social Justice” was ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American leader of the Catholic Church, called for peace in Gaza and Ukraine at his inaugural mass.

Finally, he appeared on the balcony, garbed in the white cassock of the pope, but also wearing the formal mozetta (elaborate shoulder cape) and embroidered stole ... Leo XIII, a pivotal figure ...

Pope Leo XIII, who was head of the Catholic Church from ... which weighed 206 pounds and was studded in gems, after raiders stole the previous one. Pope Leo III, born in Italy, was pope from ...