The Supreme Court this week denied a request from the Native American coalition group Apache Stronghold to halt the sale of ...

By paving the way for an American pope, Leo’s predecessor has ensured the faith won’t get hijacked by the right.

ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe of Catholics, riven by political divisions that have thwarted the will of ...

Canadian researchers have published a list of priests who served in controversial Indigenous “residential schools” that ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been named the first American pope of the Catholic Church. What to know about Pope Leo ...

The last three popes each chose very different paths between Rome and home—sometimes confrontational, sometimes aloof.

The Chicago-born pontiff is the first American to lead the Catholic Church, and while his positions on some of the church’s hot-button issues remain unclear, he has signaled continuity with his ...

Friar Bartholomew Hutcherson argues that the new Pope Leo XIV will offer the Catholic Church the best American Catholicism ...

From priests on pogo sticks celebrating in St. Peter’s Square to the crowd outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, the ...

The 2025 papal conclave at the Vatican ended with the election of American-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. Here ...

VATICAN CITY — Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a ...

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.