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

When I first read the news in Facebook that Pope Leo XIV, an American-born clergyman, had ascended to the papacy, I knew that the Catholic Church had entered a ...

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

The first American pope, Leo XIV, is expected to bring a ... To take that stance (against those laws), absolutely it has political implications, but it's not a political stance," Flowers said.

“I also laughed out loud simultaneously, for the possibility of an American being elected had been preventively ... Both Eire and McNulty discussed the various implications that the election of Pope ...

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 ...

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

In fact, the American pope chose his name in part because he ... Nonetheless, the Church’s teachings do have implications for public policy. And given that prelates don’t have the same sort ...

(RNS) — Pope Leo’s election also offers hope ... Christian nationalism is not a uniquely American phenomenon. Russia’s Vladimir Putin has used the Orthodox Church to launder the legacy ...

A POPE FOR EVERYONE — In the first days of his papacy, Pope Leo XIV has taken considerable pains to present himself as a unifier for a Catholic Church internally divided over key liturgical and ...

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