Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco issued the emergency order in a lawsuit filed by labor unions and cities last week, one ...

Pope Leo XIV said Friday that his election was both a cross to bear and a blessing as he celebrated his first Mass and ...

Religious affairs expert Martin O’Brien reports from Rome on the prospects of the man chosen to lead the Catholic Church ...

What had seemed like a modestly slow week in New Jersey politics ended with a bang after the mayor of the state’s largest city found himself in federal ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is on track to run out of money to pay its bills as early as August without congressional action, ...

The still-open wounds from decades of clerical sexual abuse, along with the growing power of far-right Catholics in Trump’s ...

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a top House ally of President Donald Trump and a MAGA firebrand with a ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a Chicago native, has become the first American pope. Known for his active presence on X, he ...

Columbia University has suspended dozens of students and barred alums and others who participated in a pro-Palestinian ...

Catholicism has rarely been more prominent in US politics as the Trump administration openly embraces its advisers and ...

When Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected Pope Leo XIV, I received texts from two friends – one in Canada, one in Ireland – both joking that Donald Trump would no doubt claim credit. The irony, of ...