The pope also shares roots with several politicians. Through one Canadian ancestor, he’s distant cousins with Pierre and ...

The phrase "Like a Prayer" has taken on a whole new significance for Madonna, as a recent discovery has revealed a surprising ...

We can offer our own form of papal indulgence for Pope Leo's baseball inclinations. Under church teaching, this is a personal ...

"The flames of indignation that Trump has whipped up may end up consuming him and his signature campaign to deport millions of our immigrant brothers and sisters," writes NCR's Michael Sean Winters.

A former village employee is asking a federal judge to block the village of Dolton from purchasing the childhood home of Pope ...

There’s a growing schism in the first American pope’s hometown. At stake is his childhood home. An auction for the house ...

Madonna and the new Pope are actually cousins. And “The Material Girl” isn’t the only celebrity who is related to Pope Leo ...

The village's dire financial condition means Dolton can't afford to take on the house where Pope Leo XIV grew up, a motion ...

Both Justin Bieber and Madonna are related to Pope Leo, who is also distant cousins with Angelina Jolie and Hillary Clinton.

It turns out, the newly appointed Pope Leo XIV (born Robert Francis Prevost) has an astonishingly celebrity-ridden family ...

Under a bright sun, around an altar set up at centerfield, more than a dozen priests and bishops led by Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich concelebrated a special Mass for the elec ...

Pope Leo XIV will holiday twice at the papal palace in Castel Gandolfo near Rome this summer, reviving a tradition abandoned by his predecessor Francis, the Vatican said Tuesday.