"I hope to be able to respond to [the challenges] with a healthy dialogue," said Cardinal Robert Prevost in 2023.

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV, as the first U.S.-born pope, may bring unique insight to the problem of polarization in ...

The last three popes each chose very different paths between Rome and home—sometimes confrontational, sometimes aloof.

“Americanism” has often been called a “phantom heresy”, blamed on a French translation of a biography of Father Isaac Hecker, ...

How will Leo’s formative three decades in the United States before life in Peru and Rome shape his church of 1.4 billion souls? Yes, the cardinals must be thinking an American could solve the Holy See ...

Leo, already established as a polyglot fluent in Italian, should not hesitate to use English and increasingly make it the ...

Fr. Tom Willis from the Diocese of St. Augustine joins News4JAX anchor Bruce Hamilton for this week’s episode of Politics & Power to discuss all that is ahead for Pope Leo XIV and the Catholic Church.

As for Catholicism in the Central Valley, I know we have a bishop and many clergy that see the importance of meeting people ...

Friar Bartholomew Hutcherson argues that the new Pope Leo XIV will offer the Catholic Church the best American Catholicism ...

Fye The Catholic Messenger Leading up to the convocation to elect a new pope, Bishop Dennis Walsh thought ...Read More ...

By Ava West On May 8, the first American pope was elected. So, what does this mean for us, as Americans? And why now? Pope ...