An unexpected gesture surprised Pope Leo during a meeting with the faithful. The protagonist of the scene was a devotee who, ...

Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first American to lead the Catholic Church elevated him to the rare position of being a U.S. citizen who is also a foreign head of state ...

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, ...

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.

The Vatican's announcement that 69-year-old Chicago native Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, would be replacing the ...

Language and how it’s used shapes not only the way we feel but also how we think, said Viorica Marian, professor of ...