The first American Pontiff is skipping a visit to his home country in the first year of his papacy. The Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV has not visited the United States since assuming the papacy last ...
On May 8—the second day of the conclave—at Santa Marta, the cardinals have a continental breakfast between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. Cardinal Timothy Dolan sits at a table with his jar of peanut butter that ...
The story that dominated the Catholic news headlines in 2025 was, of course, the death of Pope Francis and the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV. These were NCR's most read — not necessarily the most ...
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An Instagram account called “true.catholics” recently shared a mindboggling fact about the connection between Rome’s Vatican City and the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks. They wrote: “It sounds like a meme, ...
Much remains to be known about Pope Leo, who is seen as a centrist. The Illinois native has dual citizenship from the U.S.