Pope Leo XIV, the former Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, waves to the crowds in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican after his election as pope on May 8, 2025. Credit: (CNS photo/Vatican Media) On May 8—the ...
The story that dominated the Catholic news headlines in 2025 was, of course, the death of Pope Francis and the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV. These were NCR's most read — not necessarily the most ...
The leadership of the global Catholic Church is nothing if not political: you do not remain the steward of the largest denomination of the world’s largest faith for more than 1,000 years if you don’t ...
VATICAN — On May 3, 2025, one week after the funeral of Pope Francis, President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself dressed in the white cassock and miter of a pope. The image ...
The continent is crucial to the future of the church, but it’s also the center of long-running tensions over some of Catholicism’s most charged issues. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World.