“Americanism” has often been called a “phantom heresy”, blamed on a French translation of a biography of Father Isaac Hecker, ...

The last three popes each chose very different paths between Rome and home—sometimes confrontational, sometimes aloof.

Pope Francis made a strong moral case for addressing climate change and respecting Indigenous rights. Will Pope Leo do the ...

To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the historian R.W. Southern once offered ...

The Vatican has a deep history of conflict mediation, with varying degrees of success. An effort by the pope to end the war ...

ROME — There’s a sense of irony, many observers have noted recently, that the election of Pope Leo XIV as the first pope from ...

U.S. Vice President JD Vance met on Monday at the Vatican with Pope Leo XIV, the first leader of the global Catholic Church ...

An American rabbi has voiced optimism for Catholic-Jewish relations after the election of Pope Leo XIV, saying his ...

Vice President JD Vance spoke with Ross Douthat on his "Interesting Times" podcast after meeting with the new pope.

The rules behind Pope Leo remaining a US citizen now he’s a foreign head of state - Other US citizens have served as foreign ...

Pope Leo XIV met with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio a day after formally taking his role as ...

Pope Leo XIV, now the most prominent US-born religious leader in history, has positioned himself to be a force for unity at a ...