By RUSS BYNUM Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first U.S.-born leader of the Catholic Church elevated him to the extremely rare ...

To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the historian R.W. Southern once offered ...

The way the news of the new pope’s heritage was made public speaks to the complexity of discussions of race in the U.S.

“Americanism” has often been called a “phantom heresy”, blamed on a French translation of a biography of Father Isaac Hecker, ...

An unexpected gesture surprised Pope Leo during a meeting with the faithful. The protagonist of the scene was a devotee who, ...

Language and how it’s used shapes not only the way we feel but also how we think, said Viorica Marian, professor of ...