Since the Middle Ages, ... Pope Leo XIV incenses the altar inside St. Paul Outside The Walls Basilica in Rome, Tuesday, May 20, 2025, where he came to pray over the tomb of the Apostle Paul.

It may have been ignored by his predecessor due to its opulence, but now it is very much back in the public eye.

Eventually the Apostolic Camera seized the property from the Savelli family due to financial issues, and in 1604 Castel ...

When Pope Leo XIV stepped out on the central loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica to greet the crowd for the first time after his May 8 election, liturgical fashion aficionados around the globe took ...

Given the gravity of current world events, it’s possible that Pope Leo and President Donald Trump's first meeting will be packed with more “meaning” than Trump bargained for.

It is a precedent that was set in the early Middle Ages and, while there is no doctrinal reason for a pope to choose a new name, it has become part of the election process.

The pope also has a more direct role on everyday Americans, in the sense that he is the head of a church followed by 20 percent of the country. Some 53 million U.S. adults are Catholic, according ...

Pope John Paul II and other popes going back to the middle ages. STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE LATEST NEWS BY SUBSCRIBING TO MORNING REPORT NEWSLETTER They show “a respect for tradition,” he said. Such ...

Pope Francis, who died in April at age 88, ... Another way of putting that would be “let us make a deal,” which is how Trump tends to size up much of the Middle East.