Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first American to lead the Catholic Church elevated him to the rare position of being a U.S.

Across Europe’s newest economic powerhouse, where living standards have leapfrogged Japan’s and are on course to surpass ...

In this moment of deepening catastrophe, Hispanic America needs its first “Peruvian” pope to act not just as a global ...

For those (arch)dioceses that do not mark today as the Ascension, the liturgical calendar allows celebration of the optional ...

2. Pope John Paul II The visit of Saint John Paul II to Colombia took place 18 years later, in 1986, and lasted seven days, during which he toured ten cities. On July 1, the Holy Father arrived in ...

NEW LENOX, Ill. — When white smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel revealing that a new pope had been chosen, John Prevost turned on his television in Illinois, called his niece and they ...