John Connelly is a professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley, and the author of “From Enemy to Brother ...

Renowned portrait artist Nelson Shanks ' son, Alexander, has laid bare his experience of gaining first-hand access inside the ...

Pope Leo XIV presided over his inaugural Mass on Sunday. Years ago, it would have included a solemn moment when the pontiff ...

Online genealogists found that Pope Leo’s paternal grandparents in Chicago were accused of having an “illicit affair” in the ...

St. John Paul II’s birthday is May 18; he was born on this day in 1920 in Wadowice, Poland. When he was elected to the papacy ...

The Pope spoke of how the legacy of St. John Baptist de La Salle should serve as a model for today’s educators.

In one of Chicago’s south suburbs, while other boys were playing cops and robbers, the future Pope Leo XIV would pretend to hold Mass in the basement of his family’s small brick home, reading from ...

POPE Leo XIV is leading his first holy mass in the Sistine Chapel less than 24 hours after being elected. Robert Prevost, 69, ...

While this conclave began yesterday and ended today, it's not quite the fastest one in history. In 1503, Pope Julius II was ...

Cardinals took two days to select a new pontiff, matching the timeline from the previous two gatherings and suggesting that a leading candidate quickly impressed his peers during the secretive process ...