Political partisanship is likely to become an even more untenable position for American Catholics than it already is.

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

COMMENTARY: The Pope has put forward Augustine as his great friend, father and companion on the Way of Christ.

Standing on loggia of St. Peter’s basilica, newly elected Pope Leo XIV smiled, waved and appeared to hold back emotion May 8 ...

Chicagoans celebrated the historic election of Pope Leo XIV, the first pope from the U.S. and a Chicago native, with joy and ...

While it is interesting and perhaps even a point of pride that the new Pope Leo XIV was born in the United States, most of ...

When white smoke curled into the Roman sky and the world learned that the College of Cardinals had elected Robert Francis ...

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...

At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an unknown to many outside of the church.

I met the man who would become Pope Leo XIV in October 2023. We were standing outside the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and from my ...

Patrick Feltz, 28, of Villa Park, sports his homemade pope hat while waiting to enter Rate Field in Chicago for a baseball game between the Chicago White Sox and the Miami Marlins on May 10, 2025. It ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, said on Sunday that he thinks Pope Leo XIV will carry forward Francis’s ...