Pope Leo XIV is distantly related to pop star Madonna, along with Hillary Clinton, Justin Bieber, and Justin Trudeau, new research shows. The findings come from genealogist Henry Louis Gates Jr, who ...

Pope Leo XIV, an Augustinian friar, has been shaped by deep interiority and the theology of longing and memory. He personally ...

Thousands went to the first American pope’s old haunt on the South Side to hear a message from the man they once knew as ...

According to the Rev. John Wauck, professor of church communication at the Pontifical Holy Cross University in Rome, Leo’s ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said that Israel’s forces recovered the remains of two additional hostages ...

By then, Considine had become head of the U.S. bishops’ Latin America Bureau. He worked with the onetime Catholic priest and ...

Bishop Emeritus Thomas Olmsted celebrated the Kino Catechetical Institute graduation Mass for 56 individuals from the Diocese ...

"As Hispanics, we must understand that we need to have these types of conversations with our loved ones to define our ...

May saw the death of a retired U.S. Supreme Court justice who came the high court as a Republican but became a favorite among liberals during his time on the bench. David H. Souter was was appointed ...

By RUSS BYNUM Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first U.S.-born leader of the Catholic Church elevated him to the extremely rare, and legally thorny, position of being an American citizen who ...

As part of that role, he is also grand chancellor of the Pontifical Lateran University, the home of the John Paul II Institute. Pope Leo’s May 19 appointment of Cardinal Reina as grand ...

Pope John Paul II visited Chicago in October 1979, about a year after he was elected. The Archdiocese of Chicago called John Paul II's visit "an extraordinary event which saw an outpouring of ...