Pope Francis led more than one billion Catholics around the world, including about 1.24 million in Wisconsin, or 20% of the ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, O.S.A. was elected as the first American pope on May 8, taking the name Pope Leo XIV. The Chicago native was ...

Madison - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee said on Tuesday that it will pay $21m to more than 300 victims of clergy abuse in a settlement that would end a four-year bankruptcy proceeding.

By Robert D. McFadden Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland, a liberal critic of Vatican orthodoxy who led the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee for 25 years but resigned on the eve of retirement ...