Three Popes, Paul VI, John Paul II, and Francis, have visited Uganda, making it the only country in sub-Saharan Africa to ...

Born Robert Francis Prevost and raised in Chicago, he is the first American to ascend to the papacy. He is a product of an ...

Muslims in the pontiff's native city want to see Francis’ social justice approach to Christian-Muslim relations continue.

Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first U.S.-born leader of the Catholic Church elevated him to the extremely rare, and legally ...

Many shrines are located at places where specific martyrs were imprisoned, tried, tortured, or killed, with each site ...

From saints and scholars to fearless reformers, these popes didn’t just shape Church history — they shaped my life of faith.

Since Christians and Muslims acknowledge that the Jews are their elders and their religion’s foundational source, why aren’t Jews and Israel treated with more respect?

May saw the death of a retired U.S. Supreme Court justice who came the high court as a Republican but became a favorite among ...

The Rev. David Tracy, who died on April 29, was a monumental figure in American Catholicism, renowned as a teacher, scholar, ...

Chris Baeckstrom, leader of the Faith and Justice Team of Saint Thomas More Parish, introduces Dr. Beth Ford McNamee before ...

On this day in 1979, Pope John Paul II, born Karol Wojtyła in Poland, visited his home country for the first time as pontiff, ...

For more than 26 years, Pope John Paul II traveled the world with a silver pastoral staff topped with a dramatic, abstract ...