The cardinals who are electing the next pope sometimes look as ideologically polarized as many secular voters around the ...

The Catholic Church said priests will be excommunicated if they follow a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report ...

Pope Leo XIV waives from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City, 11 Army regiment condemns Starmer ...

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...

Chicago native Robert Francis Prevost has gone by “Bob” for most of his life. On Thursday, the 69-year-old became Pope Leo ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

"I hope to be able to respond to [the challenges] with a healthy dialogue," said Cardinal Robert Prevost in 2023.

A new law signed by Democratic Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson poses a danger to religious liberty and a sacred trust of ...

The Catholic Church set sail on a redirected trajectory ... But earlier expectations about that widening division are upended with Leo's election. “This is incredibly interesting because it ...

His one-word answer — “many” — quickly gained traction online. Some observers interpreted it as a nod to the complex ...