Preaching in the Sistine Chapel on May 9 to the cardinals who elected him, the first pope born in the United States opened ...

The motto that Francis selected for his papacy, ‘looking at him with mercy, he chose him,’ was inspired by Caravaggio’s ...

EXCLUSIVE: We understand that Magnolia Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to The Carpenter’s Son, a rarely told story about ...

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An American Pope Emerges as a Potential Contrast to Trump on the World Stage Pope Leo XIV’s focus on refugees and his pluralistic background may offer a different view of U.S. values from ...

Thursday marked a historic day for the Catholic Church that particularly hit home for adherents around Chicago, with the ...