The new pontiff spoke to NBC News anchor Lester Holt, who was part of a news conference for some 6,000 journalists from ...

The Rev. John T. Pawlikowski served as co-founder and director of the school’s Catholic-Jewish Studies Program and also ...

I met the man who would become Pope Leo XIV in October 2023. We were standing outside the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and from my ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S.

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...

For the first time in the history of these two preeminent institutions, their chosen leaders share the same nationality.

Robert Prevost has been elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. The Chicago-born ...

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert ...

The divisions are evident in issues like immigration, same-sex couples, and the role of women in the Church. Read more at ...

It is one of the oldest and most traditional communities of Catholicism, with eight centuries of history and Martin Luther ...

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out on Thursday, ...

Only days into his papacy, London's Catholic faithful are expressing hope and cautious optimism about the future of the Roman ...