The Vatican doesn’t tax its residents or issue bonds, and it's got a very big budget problem. It primarily finances the ...

By Jed Nelson There are moments in history that are so important, so joyful or tragic that we remember exactly where we were or what we were doing when the news was broken to us. The moment the TV ...

Francis embarked on a 12-year project to rein in the traditionalists in the United States, which is terrifically important to the global church financially. Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent ...

COMMENTARY: Not since 1808, when Bishop John Carroll was elevated to serve the see of Baltimore, has the Catholic Church in ...

As for Catholicism in the Central Valley, I know we have a bishop and many clergy that see the importance of meeting people ...

The Papal conclave has elected Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new leader of the Catholic Church. Here’s what we know ...

Since news of the new pope, Robert Prevost, who assumed the name Leo XIV, hit the wires, he has been universally celebrated ...

VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary born ... given the geopolitical power already wielded by the United States in the secular sphere. But Prevost, a Chicago native ...

“Robert Francis Prevost was a favorite of Pope Francis ... who spent most of his 69 years outside the United States, appears already to be calling Catholics back to a truly global, truly ...

I haven’t encountered any American who didn’t experience one of those sentiments upon learning a U.S. citizen became the next pope.

How will Leo’s formative three decades in the United States before life in Peru and Rome shape his church of 1.4 billion souls? Yes, the cardinals must be thinking an American could solve the Holy See ...

A couple of American cities are looking to use eminent domain to seize some holy sites: the boyhood of home of Pope Leo XIV ...