I haven’t encountered any American who didn’t experience one of those sentiments upon learning a U.S. citizen became the next pope.

We're still at the Rorschach test stage of the papacy, in which people can project almost anything they want to see amid the ...

Pope Francis put the Catholic Church on the side of the environmental movement by embracing science and our responsibility ...

On Monday, they got a special visit and some face time with Cardinal Blase Cupich. As expected, the students wore their ...

As for Catholicism in the Central Valley, I know we have a bishop and many clergy that see the importance of meeting people ...

Scottish soon-to-be priests Matthew McCafferty and Kieran Burt reflect on meeting the new Holy Father — and following in his ...

The conclave that elected the first American pope had another first that few have heard about: a voting cardinal named ...

As you have no doubt heard, after the death of Pope Francis on April 21, the conclave of cardinals got to work and elected a ...

Born Robert Francis Prevost and raised in Chicago, he is the first American to ascend to the papacy. He is a product of an ...

Brazilian Cardinal Leonardo Steiner told America that Pope Leo would carry forward Pope Francis' legacy of synodality in the ...

Approximately 5,000 staff working for the Roman Curia and state institutions — such as the Vatican Museums, the Vatican ...