Despite widespread food insecurity, federal nutrition programs are under threat. The Catholic Church must step up its ...

Catholics suffer from widespread ignorance of important, historical precedents of both female and lay ecclesial leadership.

The Chicago-born pontiff is the first American to lead the Catholic Church, and while his positions on some of the church’s hot-button issues remain unclear, he has signaled continuity with his ...

A copy of the doctoral thesis of Fr Robert Prevost — elected this year as Pope Leo XIV — has been discovered in the rare ...

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out on Thursday, ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S.-born pontiff, began his papacy with a richly-symbolic inaugural Mass, celebrated at the Vatican ...

VATICAN CITY — Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United ...

The Vatican said some 200,000 people attended the Mass at St. Peter’s Square, which marked the start of the pontificate of ...

Meeting his former colleagues and co-workers and acknowledging how many of them spent many more years working at the Vatican ...

Although hope had swelled in recent weeks in the Philippines — Asia’s largest majority-Catholic nation ... of prayer was hurting church unity — Jackson said a traditional outlook was ...

The Hyde Park school was founded in the wake of the Second Vatican Council, which shaped its teachings and philosophy toward ...