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

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

Donald Trump post this AI produced image of himself in the vestments of the pope to his social media accounts — X, Instagram, ...

The election of a first North American pontiff came after the death of the first Latin American pope and signaled a ...

The first American pope arrives at a time of extraordinary complexity and tension in the church in the United States.

Pope Leo XIV held his first meeting with cardinals since his May 8 election and offered a glimpse into his vision for the ...

"I hope to be able to respond to [the challenges] with a healthy dialogue," said Cardinal Robert Prevost in 2023.

European pope in centuries, Francis was especially aware of colonialism’s impact and the need to embrace many cultures within ...

Black smoke again billowed out of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, the second day of the conclave, indicating that no new ...

At his funeral, Pope Francis was remembered and venerated as a pontiff with "strength and serenity" who modeled his pontificate on St. Francis of Assisi. The dean of the College of Cardinals, Giovanni ...

A U.S. bishop thought it was unlikely that Catholic cardinals would break with more than two centuries of precedent to pick a ...

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