Some Catholics in Chicago still hope the new pope will signal greater acceptance for the LGBTQ+ community — with time.

The disruptive impact of artificial intelligence poses moral, ethical and spiritual questions. The new pope says the world’s ...

"We are simply overjoyed," said Sister Barbara Reid, president of Catholic Theological Union in Hyde Park, where Pope Leo ...

It strikes me as strange that our society strives to mold the Catholic Church in its image – centuries of tradition and ...

One Erie bishop met the new pope almost a decade ago in Rome. Another bishop with local ties is going to Pope Leo XIV's ...

It has long been an unwritten rule of the Catholic Church that no citizen of a world superpower can be pope. The informal ...

Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín, who welcomed the decision to fly flags at half-mast over public buildings, said there should be an official period of mourning, pointing to steps taken in Spain, Cuba and ...

I met the man who would become Pope Leo XIV in October 2023. We were standing outside the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and from my ...

Pope Leo’s childhood church, St. Mary of the Assumption on Chicago’s south side, is in a state of disrepair and in danger of ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S.

ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe ...

Francis’ papacy honored Latin American Catholics killed for their social justice work, a theologian explains – and Leo may ...