Pope Leo XIV's election as the first U.S.-born leader of the Catholic Church elevated him to the rare position of being an American citizen who now is also a foreign head of state.

Pope Leo XIV holds his first general audience in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday, issuing an appeal for Gaza, which he calls ...

In closing, let us hear the words of Pope Leo XIV, from his Inaugural Mass, May 18: ...

Popes — they're just like us? Not exactly, but you wouldn't know that by the American fanfare surrounding the newly minted ...

The Catholic Church has always been central to Creole identity. The Prevosts aren’t the only ones who passed into white ...

The way the news of the new pope’s heritage was made public speaks to the complexity of discussions of race in the U.S.

To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the historian R.W. Southern once offered ...

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

Language and how it’s used shapes not only the way we feel but also how we think, said Viorica Marian, professor of ...

The Tribune asked Vatican City tourists from around the globe what they think about Chicago — and whether Pope Leo might ...

Dad came back stateside on a hospital ship, which he referred as the ship of horrors, with hundreds of wounded men. The ...