Ryan grew up in a robust Irish Catholic family on the North Side. His Chicago Irish bona fides are deep, including his grandfather, Tommie, who founded the Shannon Rovers Pipe Band, and his father Bob ...

Pope Leo XIV holds his first general audience in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday, issuing an appeal for Gaza, which he calls ...

The text attributing quotes such as “I was also angry with God” and “God whispers” to Pope Leo XIV is false. It is an anonymous message previously circulated without a clear author, now resurfacing ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday cast doubt over the Vatican as a potential location for peace talks between ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov cast doubt on Friday over the Vatican as a potential location for peace talks between ...

As Pope Leo settles into the job, he signals what's ahead for the new papacy, taking action on the vision he sketched out in a 500-word speech.

Cardinal Pablo Virgilio Siongco David, the Filipino prelate recently elevated to the College of Cardinals, has offered a rare ...

Following the death of Pope Francis, the Vatican began the conclave process to elect the new pope. Some students studying at ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin received the Path to Peace Award at a May 19 gala dinner in New York, having addressed ...

Trump enacted his sweeping tariff plan in order to offset the jaw-droppingly expensive extension to his 2017 tax cuts, but ...

Step aside, presidents and prime ministers: Vice President JD Vance says he wants to work with the newest world leader, Pope ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A quiet alliance between North and South American cardinals helped elect the first US-born pope.