After the white smoke cleared, Brown papal historian David Kertzer reflected on the significance of an American pope, how the ...

Pope Leo’s election also offers hope, because he reminds the world that religious conviction need not serve nationalist power ...

Efforts to reform utilization management policies must prioritize clinical value, improve transparency, ensure alignment with ...

As white smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel chimney at 6:08 p.m. May 8 in Vatican City, University of Iowa Catholic Studies ...

Pope Leo XIV blessed the more than 150 cyclists competing in the Giro d’Italia on Sunday as the three-week race’s final stage ...

One former student called the longtime University of Chicago Divinity School professor "an intellectual who loved to think." ...

Suddenly I heard the most beautiful noise I have ever heard in my life: the sound of tens of thousands of people cheering as ...

University of Dayton Associate Professor of Religious Studies and author of The Look of Catholics: Portrayals in Popular ...

It was about the time that the fake video started circulating about the woman purporting to recount the “situationship” she’d had with Robert Prevost, the new American pope, decades ago when ...

Vice President JD Vance attended Pope Leo's inaugural mass. The trip could set the tone for the Trump administration's relationship with the new pope.

As Pope Leo XIV is formally inaugurated, he vows to work for unity and peace at a time of polarization in the Catholic Church and the wider world, with leaders including Vice President Vance and ...

Leo’s commitments present a challenge to the nationalism and isolationism currently promoted by the White House.