COMMENTARY: The week’s liturgical calendar features saints who died defying unjust rulers — and feasts that point to the ...

When hope seems long gone, Christians can turn to Jesus to overcome being resigned to despair and regain the desire to be ...

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

Pope Leo XIV’s quiet words to a post-abortive woman continue to echo in a Church seeking to heal and evangelize.

The curly haired Italian kid could not have known at the time that he would become the first millennial saint who would ...

Can Pope Leo XIV remain a U.S. citizen while leading a foreign government? Here are things to know about the legally thorny question.

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was born in New York to British parents in 1964. He left the U.S. as a young boy and renounced his American citizenship in 2016 while serving as the U.K.'s ...

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 ...

The actress and talk show host revealed she had been “blessed” by Pope John Paul II when she was having a crisis of faith after getting an abortion at 15. “I had an abortion when I was 15 ...

Carol Guzy Miami Herald File Lightning shook the skies, rain pelted the earth. But Pope John Paul II, preaching under an umbrella, wanted to keep saying his outdoor Mass at Tamiami Park during his ...