Leo officially opened his pontificate by taking his first popemobile tour through the piazza, a rite of passage that has ...

New pontiff Robert Francis Prevost embraces a long Catholic tradition of standing with laborers by picking Leo as his name | ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States was elected the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday, taking the name Pope Leo XIV and becoming the first American to hold the ...

At stake is the direction of the Catholic Church, a 2,000-year-old institution ... Voting once that day and four times a day thereafter until a pope is chosen, they will stay at the nearby Santa ...

Drummond, a case that questions whether the state must fund a Catholic ... of church and state. As reported by Slate, conservative justices on the Court are expected to support St. Isidore’s claim. “I ...

Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park, kicking off the park’s Art X Freedom program which commissions artists to create public, site-specific works circling visions of social justice. Titled ...

In a ceremony earlier this month, Murray Chatlain walked into St. Mary's Cathedral to be ordained the Roman Catholic Church's eighth archbishop of the Archdiocese of Winnipeg. Just before ...

But Africa’s share of the Catholic population is growing. The continent is now home to 20 percent of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, as the church struggles to hold on to followers in ...

Pope Francis, who has died aged 88 after 12 years at the head of the Catholic Church, was probably the most famous Argentinian who ever lived. Born in 1936 as Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis ...

Pope Francis, the Catholic Church's 266th pontiff, was the first Jesuit to lead the church in its nearly 2,000-year history. More than 200,000 people gathered in St. Peter’s Square April 26 to ...

What direction should the Catholic Church take under the next pope? The late pontiff’s emphasis on social and economic justice, advocacy for migrants and openness to debate on homosexuality and ...

The island was renamed in his honor in 1973, the same year modernist architect Louis Kahn was commissioned to design a memorial to Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms”: freedom of speech, freedom of ...