J. D. Vance could have brought the country’s conflicting strands together. Instead, he took a divisive path to the peak of ...

A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis" came out in 2016, it got a variety of responses from liberals and progressives.

The Trump administration seeks to improve ties by working with Pope Leo XIV on ending the Ukraine war and de-emphasizing ...

The language barrier has helped maintain an air of unreality around the papacy in the U.S. That is about to change.

Pope Leo XIV will preside over his inaugural mass today in front of St Peter’s Basilica, which marks the formal start of his ...

Middletown native and US Vice President JD Vance congratulated Pope Leo XIV on his election Thursday in a post to social media. “Congratulations to Leo XIV, the first American Pope, on his election!

Sen. Moreno proposes "Larry Henderson Act" for 20-year minimum sentence for assaulting federal officers; Rep. Sykes ...

A Chicago native and Villanova University graduate ... For their part, Trump, Vance and other American leaders have congratulated the new pope. Of Leo XIV, Trump wrote it was “such an honor ...

Vice President JD Vance will travel this weekend ... then-Cardinal Robert Prevost, a Chicago native, to lead the Catholic Church, making him the first American ever to hold the post.