A map shows the areas of the U.S. where Catholicism is on the rise, with certain regions experiencing a much higher influx ...

Decision season starts Thursday for the Supreme Court, kicking off a race against the clock to release this term’s opinions ...

When broken down by race and ethnicity, Catholicism is growing the fastest among Hispanics in the U.S. According to data from Pew Research Center, 29% of all Catholics in the U.S. were Hispanic in ...

Despite losing 1,200 churches, America has gained 2.9 million Catholics since 2010, according to an NBC News analysis of data from the U.S. Religion Census.

(THE CONVERSATION) In his first appearance as Pope Leo XIV on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, the man born Robert Francis Prevost spoke for 10 minutes in Italian. Then he transitioned to Spanish ...

In one of his first speeches, Pope Leo XIV — an American née Robert Francis Prevost who succeeds Pope Francis — spoke out in ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

Pope Leo XIV was chosen as the new pope Thursday, becoming the first American pope. Here is where Hispanic Catholics in the U ...

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...