This year will go down as one of the best and worst years ever to be a Catholic in the United States.

New recordings of church officials spurred the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, to file an updated ...

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost was named Thursday as the first ever American pope – and folks in the Windy City are having a blast over it. “From now on, all communion wafers shall be deep dish, ...

Weeks after the election of the first U.S.-born pope, the board had moved to acquire the 75-year-old home where the former Robert Prevost and his family lived until 1969. The site immediately became a ...

Months after purchasing the childhood home of Pope Leo XIV, the village of Dolton has designated it as an official historic ...

Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native and noted White Sox supporter, received a unique gift honoring his baseball fandom.

“Speaking softly” is what Popes traditionally do. You have to go back to the sixteenth century and Pope Julius II, founder of ...

The American pontiff has rebuked the White House over its treatment of immigrants and the potential invasion of Venezuela.

"We have a new pope, so he has lots of things in front of him," the diocese's spokesman said.

They appeared on courts and carpets, stages and sidelines, screens big and small. And they all shaped notions of style and ...

Father Jonathan Kelly — rector of St. John Vianney College Seminary in St. Paul — and seminarians from the college studying in Rome received an unexpected blessing the day before Thanksgiving: They ...