Pope Leo: A pope is nothing more than a humble servant May 11, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Feature, News, Vatican, World News The Catholic community is alive, beautiful and strong, and it is up to its pastors to protect and nourish the faithful and to help bring God’s hope to the whole world, Pope Leo XIV said.
Catholic school students ‘elect’ pope in their own ‘conclave’ May 11, 2025By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, Feature, Local News, News, Schools Before the College of Cardinals elected U.S.-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as the next supreme pontiff May 8, students across Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore were holding their own mock conclaves – complete with rituals, research and reverence.
Pope Leo to inaugurate his papacy May 18; a look at his May calendar May 9, 2025By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XVI will officially inaugurate his papacy with Mass in St. Peter’s Square May 18.
New pope calls for Christian witness in world that finds faith ‘absurd’ May 9, 2025By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Where Christians are “mocked, opposed, despised or at best tolerated and pitied” is where the Catholic Church’s “missionary outreach is most desperately needed,” Pope Leo XIV said in his first homily as leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics.
First American pope: White Sox fan, Villanova grad, Peru missionary, Vatican leader May 9, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo, 69, formerly Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, is the first pope from the United States. He assumes the chair of Peter with multifaceted leadership experience: He grew up in the Midwest, graduated from Augustinian-run Villanova University in 1977 with a math degree, ministered as a bishop in Peru, and led the Vatican dicastery that helps appoint, form and retire bishops.
Baltimore-area Catholics pray for new pope, express excitement for his leadership May 8, 2025By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, Feature, Local News, News, Vatican Many of the approximately 100 people who gathered at a cathedral adorned with yellow and white papal bunting expressed shock at the election of an American pope. But there was also a sense of excitement.
Archbishop Lori surprised, heartened by selection of American pope May 8, 2025By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, Feature, Local News, News, Vatican As French Cardinal Dominique Mamberti announced to the world May 8 that Cardinal Robert F. Prevost had been elected as the successor to Pope Francis, Archbishop William E. Lori and several of his closest advisors appeared visibly stunned.
Chicago native Cardinal Prevost elected pope, takes name Leo XIV May 8, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, the Chicago-born prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops under Pope Francis, was elected the 267th pope May 8 and took the name Pope Leo XIV.
White smoke emerges, indicating election of new pope May 8, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, Feature, News, Vatican, World News The 133 cardinals decided May 8 after less than a day of voting on a new pope to lead the Catholic Church.
Missionary discipleship sees growth after Seek the City initiative May 8, 2025By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, Local News, News, Seek the City to Come Across the Archdiocese of Baltimore, a renewed call to missionary discipleship is taking root. It is most recently outlined in “A Light Brightly Visible 3.0,” a pastoral letter released Ash Wednesday by Archbishop William E. Lori, and was the foundation of the archdiocese’s Seek the City to Come pastoral planning initiative that merged 61 Baltimore-area parishes into 30 worship sites.
A morning of black smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney May 8, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, Feature, News, Vatican, World News The 133 cardinals who entered the conclave failed to reach a two-thirds supermajority of at least 89 votes to elect a new pope during their morning session May 8.
Conclave: First ballot fails to elect pope May 7, 2025By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, Feature, News, Uncategorized, Vatican, World News As expected, the 133 cardinals who entered the Sistine Chapel May 7 failed to elect the next pope on their first ballot.
