The new pope, the latest in a line dating back almost 2,000 years, was quickly subjected to a very modern phenomenon: no sooner had Pope Leo XIV delivered his first address than people started ...

Both observers and Vietnamese Catholics believe that Leo XIV will carry forward the legacy of Pope Francis, who brought ...

As a boy, I once told my mother that I wanted to grow up to be either the pope or a mud wrestler. She replied dryly that ...

The election of Pope Leo XIV marks a turning point for American Catholicism and global Christianity, reshaping political, ...

Sometimes, when you hear people who ordinarily should be referred to as elders (with the wisdom widely believed to be ...

It is in the US where the real kindling for the TradCath movement has been laid. There has been serious concern in recent ...

China is expanding its economic and political footprint in Latin America through billions of dollars in loans and cooperative ...

Pope Francis, who took his name from the patron saint of ecology -- St. Francis of Assisi -- died the day before Earth Day ...

Survivors of clergy sexual abuse are amplifying calls for a global zero-tolerance policy and other reforms from the American ...

Pope Francis’s legacy is one of bold moral clarity: a Church allied with the poor, a planet in peril, and a global economy in ...

A 5,000-ton North Korean destroyer suffered a "serious accident" during a launch ceremony, state media reported Thursday, ...

President George H.W. Bush nominated Souter to the Supreme Court in 1990. He was confirmed the same year, served 19 years on ...