After the white smoke cleared, Brown papal historian David Kertzer reflected on the significance of an American pope, how the ...

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Chinese Bishop Joseph Lin Yuntuan as an assistant in Fuzhou, the capital of China's south-eastern ...

In his first words directed specifically to Americans, Pope Leo XIV told young people on Saturday how to find hope and ...

The Vatican says the 2018 agreement, renewed until October 2028, is the best deal it could secure despite its undisclosed ...

Growing up in her Chicago parish, Pope Leo XIV’s mother experienced ritual on a grand scale and attended Immaculata High School.

As headlines in major U.S. publications on May 8 blared that the first pope from the U.S. had been elected, newspapers in Peru, where he is a citizen, begged to differ.

The case against Prevost first emerged during a confrontation with the powerful ultra-Catholic group Sodalitium, with ...

When John Paul II was elected to serve as pope, he became the first and only pope to call Poland his native country and home. As such, he used his position and status to advocate the end of the Cold ...

Pope Leo XIV does not seek to become a mediator in Russia's war against Ukraine. Why is the Vatican refraining from taking ...

The headwear has a long association with hip-hop. Ice Cube helped popularise the White Sox cap in during the early ’90s – ...

NCR readers respond to stories about the on-going reform of Opus Dei, Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' and the early signs of ...

Gallup conducts polling on religious influence at least twice per year as part of an effort to gauge 'U.S. religious ...