This year, as we celebrate the Feast of Saint Leo the Great today, and for the first time since Pope Leo XIV was elected earlier this year, it is a timely day to revisit who the first Pope Leo was.

ROME -- Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday named a successor to embattled New Orleans Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond, two weeks after the archdiocese agreed to a $230 million proposed settlement for survivors of ...

This week is significant, for religious reasons it has not always existed. It was in 1582, Pope Gregory XIII instituted a major reform of the calendar, which has since been almost universally adopted.