After the white smoke cleared, Brown papal historian David Kertzer reflected on the significance of an American pope, how the ...

COMMENTARY: Today’s feast is directly linked to the jubilee years of 1975 and 2000, making its observance this jubilee year a ...

By then, Considine had become head of the U.S. bishops’ Latin America Bureau. He worked with the onetime Catholic priest and ...

The Bloomington priest never thought he'd wind up back in his hometown. Hennessy retired in 2013 after a decade as pastor at ...

The pope approved the new canonization date for the two young blesseds and set Oct. 19 as the date for the canonization of ...

Leo’s elevation broke the longstanding rule of thumb that no American, as a citizen of a superpower, could or even should ...

One of the greatest challenges facing Pope Leo XIV is financial. He has inherited the Holy See’s chronic, 50 million to 60 ...

The Vatican doesn’t tax its residents or issue bonds, and it's got a very big budget problem. It primarily finances the ...

Blessed Carlo Acutis, the first millennial saint, and Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, who dedicated his life to serving the poor and sick, will be canonized together on Sept. 7.