Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has cited his Catholic childhood as a key influence on his approach to government as he heads ...

The new pope had a close relationship with Francis, whose legacy looms large. A key inspiration for that legacy, however, is the witness of Latin American Christians whose blood has been shed for ...

As contemporary as they sound, these lines come from his 19th-century predecessor, Pope Leo XIII. The encyclical was entitled ...

When I first read the news in Facebook that Pope Leo XIV, an American-born clergyman, had ascended to the papacy, I knew that the Catholic Church had entered a ...

The new pope's eldest brother has come under scrutiny for inflammatory political posts—here's what we know about him.

The pope, or the head of the Catholic Church, is followed by well over a billion people across the globe. He is also the ...