Reporters have rarely been fans of faith in politics, and often decry the Republican Party’s cozy relationship with religious ...

Pope Leo XIV is being scrutinized for how he might interact with the Trump administration after its rifts with the late Pope ...

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Cardinal Robert Barron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester in Minnesota who travelled to Rome for the papal conclave, ...

Trump did win the Catholic vote in the 2024 election - he received 56 percent of it over the 41 percent given to Kamala Harris, according to the Catholic Herald. Some 53 million U.S. adults are ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago became Pope Leo XIV May 8, 2025. First US pope graduated from Villanova University, mere miles from Wharton School.

As the first American leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV is in a great position to challenge Trump's un-Christlike Christianity.

The Republican described the president as "an American man of depraved cruelty, corruption, and shame" in a social media post.

Leo urged an end to the ongoing wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. "I carry in my heart the suffering of the beloved ...

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

Can the new pontiff help the church regain the moral leadership lost in the priest abuse scandal — and possibly help save the ...