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

“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 ...

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

In an interview with America's Gerard O'Connell, Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington said that Pope Leo XIV would "carry ...

Leo’s commitments present a challenge to the nationalism and isolationism currently promoted by the White House.

The image of Trump as the pope just days after our revered Pope Francis died shows why he's a terrible model for morality.

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

The rules behind Pope Leo remaining a US citizen now he’s a foreign head of state - Other US citizens have served as foreign ...

FOX: I appreciated what you wrote in your column about the late Pope Francis. DEAR D.M.C.: In his address to the joint Houses of Congress in 2015, Pope Francis called for“ a culture of care to address ...

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 ...