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

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

Pope Leo XIV's dual role raises questions about US citizenship. Experts suggest his citizenship is safe unless he renounces ...

The US State Department says on its website that it may “actively review” the citizenship status of Americans who “serve as a ...

The way the news of the new pope’s heritage was made public speaks to the complexity of discussions of race in the U.S.

Pope Leo XIV holds his first general audience in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday, issuing an appeal for Gaza, which he calls ...

Texas would require all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments under a Republican proposal that cleared a ...

Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Prevost in Chicago, has become the first U.S.-born pontiff and now leads both the Holy See and ...

The election of a pope of American nationality is the Vatican’s response to Donald Trump. His all-out trade war, his ...