As a Chicagoan who teaches at Villanova University, it was surreal for me to watch the election of Cardinal Robert Francis ...

One issue any pope would have to face when elected to govern the Catholic Church is that of continuing to address the clergy ...

The Pope’s factual anthropological roots are not just symbolic. According to genealogist Jari Honora, his maternal lineage ...

US Catholicism knows Jews well, and that familiarity may pave the way for the new pope to improve Jewish-Catholic relations, ...

The queer Catholics hope that Pope Leo XIV’s ministry does not witness the absence of ecclesiastical embrace, of the kind they had grown to be used under Pope Francis’ pontificate ...

Repelled by American racism, thousands of free people of color bounced between New Orleans and Haiti in the 19th century.

Two Americans, two global visions. President Trump and newly elected Pope Leo XIV now stand as the most powerful political ...

The contrast with Leo’s predecessor is striking. Pope Francis collaborated closely with Argentine Jews during his years as a ...

Days after his election, a wave of misinformation has emerged across social media and various news outlets, falsely linking ...

For Vatican experts, the election of American Robert Francis Prevost Martinez as the new pope sends clear political and ...

The election of Pope Leo XIV on May 8, 2025, following the death of Pope Francis, marks a momentous occasion in the history ...

While the world anticipates the changes that a new pope will bring, fewer Latinos in the U.S. actually identify with Catholicism today. This week on Hyphenación, Host Xorje Olivares discusses the ...