Francis challenged the ethnonationalism of the U.S. Catholic right. With the election of Leo XIV, the battle lines are being ...

A press release from the Companions of the Cross urging Catholics to “adopt” one, two three or “as many priests as you like.” It seems the adoptees don’t actually move into your house.

The new pope had a close relationship with Francis, whose legacy looms large. A key inspiration for that legacy, however, is the witness of Latin American Christians whose blood has been shed for ...

In choosing his motto and coat of arms, Leo references the Order of St. Augustine, to which he belongs. He uses the ...

John E. Johnson Jr. Esq., executive director Michigan Department of Civil Rights. PHOTO COURTESY OF MICHIGAN.GOV Vatican City — Pope Leo XIV laid out the ...

Regarding America broadly, here are Leo XIII’s thoughts on the United States in 1895: He “esteemed and loved exceedingly the young and vigorous American nation, in which We plainly discern latent ...

In one of Chicago’s south suburbs, while other boys were playing cops and robbers, the future Pope Leo XIV would pretend to hold Mass in the basement of his family’s small brick home, reading from ...

When I first read the news in Facebook that Pope Leo XIV, an American-born clergyman, had ascended to the papacy, I knew that the Catholic Church had entered a ...

In interviews in the run-up to the conclave, I steered clear of making predictions in order to focus on the process: what the ...

Peruvians have celebrated the election of a man many knew as a missionary and bishop during his 2 decades of service in the ...

As a Chicagoan who teaches at Villanova University, it was surreal for me to watch the election of Cardinal Robert Francis ...

While he seems to be following in the footsteps of Francis, Robert Prevost is more elusive than his predecessors who ascended ...