The school's students and staff expressed shock and excitement following the recent election of the first-ever American pope.

I met the man who would become Pope Leo XIV in October 2023. We were standing outside the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and from my ...

After a series of closures by the Chicago Archdiocese, Christ Our Savior Church in South Holland has bragging rights as Pope ...

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

Priests are required to report child abuse or neglect to Washington state law enforcement after learning about the crime ...

Live updates and latest news as the first North American pope steps into his role as the new leader of the Catholic Church.

The Catholic Church has issued a warning to its clergy in Washington state: Any priest who complies with a new law requiring ...

When still a cardinal, the new pope led discussions on key issues facing the church during which “every voice had equal value ...

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

Pope Francis did not act as a steward of that faith, but as an improviser. Under his pontificate, clarity was displaced by ...

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

The pope is, for a majority of U.S. Catholics, equally important in their connection to the Church as their local priest and ...