Ever since Pope John XXIII was elected in 1958, the successors of St. Peter have established a pattern: pope as disruptor, ...

Pope Leo XIV receives U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance at the Vatican May 20. (Photo: Office of the Vice President of the United States/Wikimedia Commons) A string of high-level bilateral meetings ...

(Photo by Shubert Ciencia / CC BY 2.0) When Willy Guardiola emailed his 800 Catholic subscribers to announce the death of Pope Francis ... a backdrop of growing political polarization in the ...