The new pope will preside over an inauguration mass on Sunday, which will be held in Saint Peter’s Square, according to the ...

The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception will celebrate a special “Mass of Thanksgiving upon the ...

Efforts to restart direct peace talks between Russia and Ukraine are facing challenges as an American delegation leads ...

President Donald Trump arrived to an extravagant state dinner in Qatar flanked by some of his most glamorous aides and a slew ...

Regarding America broadly, here are Leo XIII’s thoughts on the United States in 1895: He “esteemed and loved exceedingly the young and vigorous American nation, in which We plainly discern latent ...

In one of Chicago’s south suburbs, while other boys were playing cops and robbers, the future Pope Leo XIV would pretend to hold Mass in the basement of his family’s small brick home, reading from ...

Nothing compares to the pageantry of a papal election, not the coronation of a British monarch, a presidential inauguration ...

As a Chicagoan who teaches at Villanova University, it was surreal for me to watch the election of Cardinal Robert Francis ...

Almost a week after Cardinal Robert Prevost was announced as the new Pope Leo XIV, people are still talking about the first ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, born in Chicago, has been elected Pope Leo XIV, making history as the first American to lead ...

The new pontiff spoke to NBC News anchor Lester Holt, who was part of a news conference for some 6,000 journalists from ...

Despite losing 1,200 churches, America has gained 2.9 million Catholics since 2010, according to an NBC News analysis of data from the U.S. Religion Census.