The Catholic Church has always been central to Creole identity. The Prevosts aren’t the only ones who passed into white ...

The way the news of the new pope’s heritage was made public speaks to the complexity of discussions of race in the U.S.

Pope Leo XIV has spoken publicly about the challenges to human dignity, justice and labor that arise from “developments in ...

Where census takers in Louisiana recorded them as Black, census takers in Illinois recorded them as white. So, too, do other ...

To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the historian R.W. Southern once offered ...

Pope Leo XIV’s American and Peruvian experience offers a compelling moral and economic lens through which to examine the ...

For many centuries we have seen the custom of a new pope changing his name. It signals the kind of papacy he envisions as he assumes the mantle.

Following the election of Pope Leo XIV, Father Kolawole Chabi—a Beninese priest of the Order of Saint Augustine and professor ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A quiet alliance between North and South American cardinals helped elect the first US-born pope.

Pope Leo XIV leads his first Mass as pontiff in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican May 9, 2025. Pope Leo, formerly Cardinal ...

I listened to Pope Leo’s first messages with Augustinian ears. In his first words from the balcony, and then in his homily at ...

Leo’s commitments present a challenge to the nationalism and isolationism currently promoted by the White House.