With the election of Pope Leo XIV, the church and the world had to come to grips with an unexpected, new spiritual leader, ...

Just five weeks after making history as the first U.S.-born pope, Leo XIV is winning hearts on American soil. A new AP-NORC ...

Today’s United States — its possibility, its strength, its divisiveness, its polarization and fragmentation — is encapsulated ...

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A lot is planned for this Flag Day, from 'No Kings Day' protests of President Donald Trump's policies to a papal speech to a ...

From our earliest days, we are taught words matter. Our parents instruct us not to call people names, say rude things, or ...

Chicago is hosting a citywide celebration and mass on Saturday for the first American-and Chicago-born Pope. Why it matters: ...

Pope Leo XIV’s hometown of Chicago is readying itself to celebrate the election of one of its own as leader of the Catholic Church. Formerly known as Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago native ...

Pope Leo XIV addresses the crowd from the main balcony ... Cossen is a historian of American religion and nationalism, and the author of Making Catholic America: Religious Nationalism in the ...

Pope Leo XIV has experience in both first- and third ... He knows human rights are being trampled and white nationalism is drowning out the progress of a multicultural society.

Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order, took the name Leo XIV. In his first words as Pope Francis’ successor, uttered from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica ...

Prevost’s surprise elevation as Pope Leo XIV gives credence to this belief ... of a deepening global struggle over democracy, nationalism, and faith. Critics argue the Church is historically ...