Vice President J.D. Vance has called the Catholic Church “so much bigger than politics” as he expressed disappointment about ...

What an extraordinary time the last few weeks have been for the overwhelmingly positive media coverage the Catholic Church ...

A brief papal conclave ended on Thursday, May 8 after Robert Prevost (known as Pope Leo XIV) made history as the first ...

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert ...

Peruvians have celebrated the election of a man many knew as a missionary and bishop during his 2 decades of service in the ...

Here’s a look at some of the leading papal contenders, with the proviso that favorites don’t typically end up getting the nod ...

The new leader of the Catholic Church is American Robert Francis Prevost, Cardinal Dominique Mamberti announced to a crowd in ...

Pope Leo XIV held his first public audience with members of the media, saying the church stood in solidarity with them for "seeking the truth." ...

Yet the cardinals in the Sistine Chapel chose Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old Chicago native, as the 267th pope of the ...

The pontiff held his first meeting with the news media at the Vatican and called on reporters to choose “the path of ...

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment of global ...

Pope Leo XIV, in remarks in 2012 when he was the Augustinian prior general in Chicago, made comments critical of what he ...