Born Robert Francis Prevost and raised in Chicago, he is the first American to ascend to the papacy. He is a product of an ...

"Bishop Pates embodies the mystery of one who believes in the transformative power of the risen Christ," Catholic Extension's ...

Also on the New York Times hardcover list for the week ended May 10: new fiction by Fredrik Backman and several others.

VATICAN CITY, — Pope Leo XIV's election as the first U.S.-born leader of the Catholic Church elevated him to the extremely ...

To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the historian R.W. Southern once offered ...

Sister Francis Dominici Piscatella, a nun from Long Island, has become the world's oldest nun following the death of a ...

Vice President JD Vance spoke with Ross Douthat on his "Interesting Times" podcast after meeting with the new pope.