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

An unexpected gesture surprised Pope Leo during a meeting with the faithful. The protagonist of the scene was a devotee who, ...

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary, was elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic ...

The Vatican has a deep history of conflict mediation, with varying degrees of success. An effort by the pope to end the war ...

U.S. Vice President JD Vance has extended an invitation to Pope Leo XIV to visit the United States during a meeting at the ...

Pope Leo XIV met with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio a day after formally taking his role as ...

The last three pontiffs each chose very different paths between Rome and home.

Presiding over a Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Leo was inaugurated as the first American pope, in a ceremony filled ...

U.S. Vice President JD Vance met on Monday at the Vatican with Pope Leo XIV, the first leader of the global Catholic Church ...

Tens of thousands came to St. Peter’s Square to mark the official start of the pontificate of the first American to lead the ...

Leo’s commitments present a challenge to the nationalism and isolationism currently promoted by the White House.

“Americanism” has often been called a “phantom heresy”, blamed on a French translation of a biography of Father Isaac Hecker, ...