Bishops often imposed such restrictions — with varying levels of enforcement and typically without warning the public — until ...

Pope Leo XIV is now the most powerful American Catholic in the world, and experts say he must aptly walk the line between U.S ...

The ritual for electing a new pope took social media by storm this week as content creators reacted to the ancient tradition ...

The new pontiff has already given some hints about his priorities as head of the Catholic Church — among them are peace, ...

Leo’s ascent occurred with remarkable speed. Just over two years ago, he’d been one of the church’s 5,400 bishops — a role with no global visibility.

The announcement that an American cardinal had been elected Roman Catholic Church’s 267th pope had special meaning for a ...

Pope Leo XIV has laid out the vision of his papacy and has identified artificial intelligence as one of the most critical ...

The Republican described the president as "an American man of depraved cruelty, corruption, and shame" in a social media post.

When Villanova University’s president, the Rev. Peter Donohue, was nearing graduation as a theatre student, a future pope ...

The world has a new pope, and for the first time ever, he is from the United States. While the relationship between the new head of the Vatican and his home country remain in its early days, Pope Leo ...