So, the gulf between the liberal Catholic Church in Germany and the more conservative churches in sub-Saharan Africa, that gap is pretty wide right now. So again, you wouldn't expect cardinals to ...

News that the global Catholic Church would get its first U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholic students at Princeton and ...

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Populist Karol Nawrocki is slightly ahead of liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski in a nail-biting presidential election.

The previous Pope Leo emphasized the Catholic Church's responsibility to care for the poor and support workers' rights.

ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe of Catholics, riven by political divisions that have thwarted the will of ...

Because of the pope’s role to maintain the fullness of tradition and the unity of the Church, a pope cannot be conservative or liberal in a political sense.

The case, a major test of the separation of church and state, was an unexpected loss for those advocating a greater role for ...

During his 12-year pontificate, Pope Francis urged Catholics to shake up their church and “make a mess” if they had to. It ...

Pope Leo XIV has stepped into the position of leader of the Catholic Church at a time when the church in the United States is ...