At midweek, the chaplain of Villanova University's basketball team cheered as one of his former star players led the New York ...

Pope Leo XIV, the 267th leader of the global Catholic Church and the first U.S. pontiff, will face a number of major ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost may be the first person from the U.S. to become the head of the Catholic Church but his surprising ...

As U.S. Cardinal Robert Prevost realized during the secret conclave that he might be elected the next Catholic pope, he put ...

The Federal Reserve needs more time to see how the economy responds to U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff and other ...

The Pentagon ordered military educational institutions to pull and review any books that promote what it called "divisive concepts and gender ideology" on Friday, in the latest move from President ...

The small city of Chiclayo in northern Peru was bustling with excitement on Friday, with businesses and locals sharing photos, memories and stories about its most famous former resident: Pope Leo XIV.

As Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass as pontiff at the Sistine Chapel on Friday, he spoke a few words in English. It was a reminder - if anyone needed one - that a baseball fan who hails from ...

The Democratic mayor of Newark, New Jersey, who is running to be the state's governor, was arrested on Friday after refusing to leave a federal immigration detention center, the top federal prosecutor ...

Pope Leo said on Friday he hoped that his election can help the Catholic Church bring light to the "dark nights of this world ...

The first wave of Federal Reserve officials to weigh in after this week's policy meeting reiterated on Friday that the ...

The International Monetary Fund executive board approved on Friday the first review of its $7 billion program with Pakistan, ...