Catholic leaders hope the pope’s relationship with his brother will help Catholics in the US learn to better love each other ...

Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV called for humanitarian aid to be allowed into war-torn Gaza, decrying the violence and suffering ...

COMMENT: There’s another global American leader striving to secure a ceasefire in Ukraine, one who could yet beat the US ...

It would make him only the fifth US president to ever win one. His nemesis, Barack Obama, had been in power for less than ...

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

He’s Sort of Heavy I’ve noticed that whenever a Pope makes even the most anodyne remark, a host of GLBT commentators ...

Trump argued in January that his mission to "realign the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program" is because "the United States lacks ...

The Vatican's announcement that 69-year-old Chicago native Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, would be replacing the ...

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in ...

VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary born in Chicago who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the ...