The Vatican is beatifying a Congolese government worker who was killed for resisting corruption, giving young people in a part of the world wracked with violence a new model of holiness ...

In a dangerous world, where the US can no longer be assumed to be a reliable partner, Australia needs to listen to the EU’s ...

A new AP-NORC poll finds that just over a month after Pope Leo XIV became the first U.S.-born pontiff, American Catholics are ...

As the cardinals gather at the Vatican to elect a new pope, here's the lowdown on the perks, pomp and powers of the pontiff ...

Chicago’s elation over the hometown boy’s election led to a huge party for the first U.S. pope, who will begin to chart his ...

In a message to Catholics in Chicago, directed especially at young people, Pope Leo XIV urged them to become “beacons of hope ...

The Republican presidential nominee in 1964, Barry Goldwater, sermonized, “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice.” The ...

Iran and Israel continued trading missiles and airstrikes on June 14, a day after Israel launched a sweeping air offensive ...