The first American pope arrives at a time of extraordinary complexity and tension in the church in the United States.

With Robert Prevost named Thursday as the new pope, local and state officials are reacting to the first American-born pope in ...

The Chicago-born pontiff is the first American to lead the Catholic Church, and while his positions on some of the church’s ...

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First American pontiff Robert Prevost takes Catholic Church helm amid increasing global turmoil - The 69-year-old former cardinal was chosen to be the 267th pope by the Conclave after more than two-th ...

Eric Lee/The New York Times “The guiding thread of his mission was also the conviction that the church is a home for ... and a spirit of “welcome and listening.” But Francis also “truly ...

Pope Leo has considerable challenges on his hands within the Church — financial issues, declining vocations, and, notoriously, the litany of sex abuse scandals involving the Church ...

I don't know any other pastor in the conference who got to see their kids graduate from the school district in which they started,' Eric Raygor said.

Francis and Benedict XVI were both revealed in the evening of the conclave’s second ... “With great thanksgiving, we welcome our Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV! Let the Church find hope in this moment and ...

The monthly silent movie nights at the Arcada Theatre have gone even more silent — as in they are no longer scheduled at this ...