Showing up in Rome is pragmatic statecraft, executed under Bernini’s colonnade, where religious and political figures have ...

COMMENTARY: The new Pope seems to want to continue the tradition of developing Catholic social teaching in a way that breaks ...

Symbolism over substance" is a consistent critique of political parties and political leaders, regardless of one's political leanings. There is nothing wrong with symbols or symbolism. From the ...

Pope Leo XIV has personally invited President Bola Tinubu to Vatican. He gave historical reason for the invitation extended ...

Pope Leo's inauguration ceremony will offer yet another opportunity for U.S. and Ukrainian leaders to negotiate peace.

W.Va., has introduced a House resolution to celebrate the election of the first-ever pope born in the United States.

Even as Pope Leo XIV's profile as a humble champion of the disenfranchised takes shape, a looming question is how he will ...

Eire suggested that one of the reasons Pope Leo was chosen is that he is not a “full-blown American.” Despite being born in ...

Msgr. Paul V. Garrity The ink was barely dry on the official document that made Cardinal Robert Prevost the 266th successor to St. Peter when right wing pundits began branding him as woke. Before he ...

Pope Leo’s hometown Dolton was hit with economic hardship following the collapse of the steel industry on the Far South Side.

George Weigel held a public lecture at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas on the “10 Markers of a Church ...

The newly named Leo will be a welcome voice, with a Midwestern accent, against the unchristian attitude of the present ...