Pope Leo I helped to ensure that Catholicism would outlast the Roman Empire. His name is a reminder that our faith rises above contemporary politics and temporal authority.

Catholics suffer from widespread ignorance of important, historical precedents of both female and lay ecclesial leadership.

Cardinal Robert F. Prevost has selected the name Pope Leo XIV—so who was Pope Leo XIII?

The papal conclave will take place as usual in the hallowed space of the Sistine Chapel. What is the history of this famous church and its artistic treasures?

The role of the pope is in a process of conversion from worldly monarch to world’s priest.

In 'Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel, Edwin Frank explores how reality has been presented and even transformed through the way it is molded in fiction—and how the novel evolved from the 19th century novel to that of the 20th century.