Serving life by caring for others is “the supreme law” that comes before all of society’s rules, Pope Leo XIV said in his ...

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy -- Pope Leo XIV called Sunday for “merciful compassion” for the world’s poor, victims of tyranny and ...

Best-selling author, Harvard professor and renowned social scientist Arthur Brooks says the missionary character and approach ...

Let's remember what July 4 is about: independence from people who governed without listening, taxed without accountability, ...

Tom Dornish Lincoln, Neb. I always look forward to David Brooks’s articles and often agree with much of what he writes.

The cardinals’ selection of Pope Leo tests the strained relationship between the bishop of Rome and conservative Catholics.

In Chicago, New Orleans and beyond, elated worshipers and priests celebrated their immediate sense of connection with Pope Leo.

The pope’s childhood parish, St. Mary of the Assumption, had grown rapidly in the decades before Leo was born, outgrowing two buildings and moving into a third that opened in 1957, when the ...

Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich participated in the conclave that elected Robert Prevost to lead the Catholic Church as pope.

The first American pope arrives at a time of extraordinary complexity and tension in the church in the United States.

To discuss the implications of Robert Prevost’s election as pope, for both the church and for the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, Amna Nawaz spoke with Kim Daniels, the director of the ...

Catholic cardinals are gathering at the Vatican for the 2025 conclave to choose Pope Francis' successor. Here's how long it could take.