The tension between the nation’s two most prominent leaders reveals “just how deeply religion has been politicized in the ...

Opinion: The Catholic church has outlasted Herod and Pilate through Napoleon to Stalin and Hitler. It will probably manage ...

President Donald Trump, reacting publicly to Pope Leo XIV, was no match for the Roman Catholic leader's moral argument for ...

Never before has the relationship between Washington and the Vatican revolved around two Americans — specifically, a ...

(RNS) — Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich told immigrants that Trump administration deportation efforts had acquainted them with Ash Wednesday’s Scripture passage about practicing faith in secret. (RNS) — ...

Kraken president Ron Francis and the team have mutually agreed he will step down from his position upon next week’s conclusion of the regular season, ending a nearly seven-year executive run by the ...

Once in a while, the actual event exceeds intense anticipation. For River Forest Village President Cathy Adduci and a practicing Catholic, that moment was April 6, when she met Pope Leo XIV in Rome.

Pope Leo XIV reiterated his “urbi et orbi” message from Easter, asking all people of goodwill to search always for peace and not violence, in a tacit rebuke of President Donald Trump’s threat that a ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Easter Mass as pontiff with a call Sunday to exercise hope against "the violence of war that kills and destroys," saying "we need this song of hope today" as ...

Pope Leo XIV smiles while leading the "Regina Caeli" prayer in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican April 6, 2026. Credit: OSV News photo/Elisabetta Trevisan, Vatican Media (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV paid ...

Pope Leo XIV gave his first Easter blessing as pontiff on Sunday, calling for peace and urging the world not to grow indifferent to the deaths of tens of thousands in violent conflicts around the ...

Pope Leo XIV called for dialogue and for those with the power to unleash wars to choose peace, in his first Easter Sunday message since becoming the head of the Catholic Church last year. Speaking ...