Pope Leo XIV has criticized the surge of nationalist political movements in the world as he prayed for reconciliation and ...

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

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 ...

I was in my office in Old Union when I heard that the new Pope was an American. Within minutes, a Peruvian undergrad messaged me, “NEW POPE IS AMERICAN AND PERUVIAN!!!!!” Over the next few ...

Have you ever wondered what happens when a U.S. citizen reaches the pinnacle of a foreign, sovereign entity? It's not a scenario that plays out every day, but it's exactly the kind of fascinating ...

Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first U.S.-born leader of the Catholic Church elevated him to the extremely rare, and legally thorny, position of being an American citizen who now is also a ...

Into this age of American decline comes the first American pope. He is really more of our second Latin American pope, having Peruvian in addition to U.S. citizenship and speaking Spanish but not ...

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