President Donald Trump once again captured the media's attention this Thursday with a peculiar post from the White House on ...

To have such a Mass celebrated in the mother church of England was ‘very impressive, very moving. We must pray a lot for the ...

We must pray for the conversion of many people, inside and outside of the church, who still do not recognize the urgency of ...

A local historian went to Rome for the first time during the conclave. But he wasn’t expecting ‘that’ kind of history.

Pope Leo XIV on July 3 appointed two prominent cardinals, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, and ...

Standing near the gravestone for the relative he never met, Mark Bailey accepted the crisply folded American flag from the ...

Leo XIV offers challenging encouragement to seminarians and younger priests who often felt unappreciated and even attacked by his predecessor.

Pectoral cross: Typically a plain Latin cross of gold suspended round the neck by a gold chain or a cord of silk and gold, the suspension of the cross over the heart is significant.

Pope Leo XIV carries on his pectoral cross a relic of an Augustinian martyr bishop, Anselmo Polanco, who was executed during the 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War.

On May 18th, at the inaugural mass of Pope Leo XIV, formerly American Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a ring will also play a pivotal role in the ceremony. The service, if it follows tradition ...

In images he can often be seen wearing another ring, a rather simple silver cross. The choices Pope Leo XIV makes about his own Fisherman’s Ring—solid gold? New or recycled?