Pope Leo XIV on Sunday celebrated a special feast day traditionally used by the Catholic Church to drum up donations from the faithful, with the Vatican under the first American pope ...

When the Rev. Matthew Baum attended Johnstown’s Juneteenth activities recently, he was on a multi-layered mission. Baum, rector at St. John Gualbert Cathedral and St. Patrick Catholic Church, both in ...

Since 2022, Catholic Charities of Chicago has contracted with Cozen O’Connor Public Strategies to lobby on its behalf before the State of Illinois.

CHICAGO (RNS) — The Catholic leaders of Leo’s hometown hold out hope that the new pope can help turn around ailing finances and a shortage of priests.

On May 7, Robert Francis Prevost entered the Sistine Chapel as a dark-horse cardinal from Chicago. A day later, after securing the votes of at least 89 out of his 132 peers, he appeared on the balcony ...

The pope grew up in a Catholic enclave on Chicago’s South Side. That community is gone now.

Leo XIII, pope at the turn of the 20th century, was the author of the Rerum Novarum encyclical letter, often considered the first step in the Catholic Church’s gradual acceptance of political ...

VATICAN CITY — Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a ...

That Leo softened the church’s confrontational stance toward modernity, especially science and politics and laid the foundation for modern Catholic social thought, most famously with his 1891 ...

This small park used to be home to the first Catholic Church for African Americans west of Baltimore, served by the first openly Black priest.

The U.S. Catholic Church has a painful history of racism. One step toward healing could be canonization of the six African Americans currently up for consideration as saints.

The Shrine of All Saints at St. Martha Church in Morton Grove has 3,100 Catholic holy relics and added ones from St. Luke, author of a gospel, and St. Juan Diego.