ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe of Catholics, riven by political divisions that have thwarted the will of ...

Pope Leo XIV formally assumed his role as the first American-born leader of the global Catholic Church with a Mass in St. Peter's Square in Rome drawing tens of thousands of people, including dozens ...

More than 60,000 people have signed a petition calling for the removal of Cologne Archbishop Rainer Maria Woelki.

The world's smallest country has a big budget problem. The Vatican doesn’t tax its residents or issue bonds. It primarily ...

Can Pope Leo XIV solve the Vatican funding crisis? Here’s how the Holy See manages money - The Vatican doesn’t tax its ...

Argentina's President Javier Milei held his first official audience with Pope Leo at the Vatican on Saturday where he ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

Pope Leo XIV, history's first North American pope, has celebrated his first Mass as pontiff in the Sistine Chapel. Cardinals elected the Chicago-born Augustinian missionary Robert Prevost to ...

Douthat shared his thoughts on all things American and Catholic in an interview with Anchor Catherine Hadro on “EWTN News in ...

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out on Thursday, signaling that a new pope—the 267th leader of the Catholic Church—had been ...

Pope Leo XIV met Thursday with members of the Vatican’s child protection advisory panel for the first time amid questions ...

Pope Leo XIV is now the most powerful American Catholic in the world, and experts say he must aptly walk the line between U.S. politics and his papal duties.