This is a time of change for Latino Catholics, currently about 40 percent of the U.S. Church, and who experts say are likely ...

Ahead of the celebration of Independence Day, Edward Furton, publications director for The National Catholic Bioethics Center ...

The U.S. embassy’s annual celebration, held June 30, commemorated the 41st anniversary of formal diplomatic relations between ...

The Catholic Church elected Pope Leo XIV in the age of Trump, but not to fight Trump.

The first American pope, Leo XIV, is expected to bring a global perspective to the papacy despite his American upbringing. While some anticipate political divisions within the American Catholic ...

Political partisanship is likely to become an even more untenable position for American Catholics than it already is.

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A new pope has been elected, and in a major surprise, an American has been chosen for the first time. Robert Francis Prevost will now be known as Pope Leo XIV. In his first remarks as the leader ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, who was just elected as Pope Leo XIV, studied under a pioneer in Jewish-Catholic relations when he attended seminary in Chicago. The Rev. John T. Pawlikowski, who taught ...

President Donald Trump embraced Robert Prevost as the first American pope, writing in a Truth Social post that his election is a "Great Honor for our Country." ...

Massa traces this strain in American Catholicism back to what’s been called the “comic opera heresy” of a fellow Jesuit, Leonard Feeney.

His critics were fellow clergy as well as elected officials in the ascendant wing of the American Catholic political realm.