Agostino Giovagnoli, a professor of Church history at Milan’s Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, described the more ...

As a Chicago-born math major, canon lawyer and two-time superior of his global Augustinian religious order, the 69-year-old ...

The ascendancy of Cardinal Robert Prevost — now Pope Leo XIV – to become the global head of the Catholic Church is an ...

Leo’s elevation broke the longstanding rule of thumb that no American, as a citizen of a superpower, could or even should ...

Pope Leo XIV met with members of the Vatican’s child protection advisory commission on Thursday for the first time amid ...

A month later, on the feast of St. Mary Magdalene, four Franciscan priests claimed to have witnessed the same apparition.

Former members of a now-suppressed, scandal-plagued Peruvian lay group and peasants who claim to have been routinely harassed ...

In modern times, the fiesta of La Virgen de la Puerta is lavishly celebrated in the town of Otuzco, where thousands of ...

Figari founded the Sodalitium in Peru in 1971 as a lay community to recruit “soldiers for God.” It was one of several Catholic societies ... but neither the local church nor the Holy See ...

who met Leo XIV in 2018 at a 50th-anniversary celebration of the Sisters of Charity launching their Peru mission, were overjoyed that the 133 cardinal electors chose him to become the earthly head of ...

CHICLAYO, Peru (OSV News) — Young people in the former Peruvian ... “He wanted us to become deeply involved with the social doctrine of the Catholic Church,” she told OSV News. The pope became known ...