The May 8 election of Pope Leo XIV as the first American pontiff in the history of the Catholic Church drew emotional reactions from Catholics across Guam. Some voiced hope that the new pope’s ...

Theology news rarely sends shock waves through Catholic offices around the world, but this headline did: “Just one-third of U.S. Catholics agree with their church that Eucharist is body ...

Domenico Stinellis/AP Share Pope Leo XIV affirmed a core teaching of the Catholic church Friday: that family is founded on the “stable union between a man and a woman.” But some Chicago ...

When Pope Francis died, the morning after Easter, prominent right-wing Catholics leapt at the chance to lobby for a more conservative, even Trumpian, leader of the Church. Far-right pundit Jack ...

The Josephites, another Catholic religious community founded to serve African Americans, also has a long history in New Orleans. Their priests and religious brothers have served in the city since ...

With Pope Leo XIV assuming his post, college football coaching legend Lou Holtz shared an important message for every Catholic around the globe. Holtz said he has been "Catholic all my life ...

Catholic Health is laying off 1% of its more than 17,000 employees, the Rockville Centre-based health system said Wednesday. Catholic Health operates six Long Island hospitals, the second-highest ...

After the killing of Giacomo Matteotti, a debate began about the way militant Catholics should proceed against the Mussolini government, which many accused of having organized or endorsed the crime.

A petition circulated by local Catholic churchgoers called Edgardo Campos, who's in detention, the "heart of our parish" and demand his immediate release. The Nashville Catholic diocese ...

With time the future pope evolved. “Doctrine hasn’t changed,” he told Catholic News Service after Pope Francis made him a cardinal in 2023. “But we are looking to be more welcoming and ...

WASHINGTON – Across the nation’s capital, Catholics joyously welcomed the news of the church’s first U.S.-born pope. “I never thought in my lifetime I would see an American pope,” said ...

The last Leo was long reigning and popular and remembered fondly by Catholics of varying theological stripes. He’s famous for his interventions in 19th-century debates over capitalism and ...