Pope Francis chose his name in honor of St. Francis of Assisi, Italy’s patron saint who emulated the life of Christ like perhaps no other figure in the church's history. New York’s Cardinal Timothy ...

The pope will be received by House Speaker John Boehner before addressing both the House and Senate. Chief Justice John Roberts, along with Justices Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonya ...

EAST SIDE (WABC) -- After his two days in Washington, D.C., Pope Francis will fly to New York City on Thursday evening, and extra security measures are already going into effect. The amount of ...

In his Civil Rights and Civil Liberties column, Christopher Dunn writes: Last week's government-papal engagement refocused attention on a long-standing concern of mine about an invocation of God found ...

Pope Leo XIV met Monday with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church and encouraged his ministry, just days before a planned Holy Year pilgrimage of ...

For the world's 1.4 billion Catholics and for millions of other people as well, the Catholic Church's 2025 was primarily ...

Traveling through the Mideast, Leo XIV channeled many of his predecessor’s messages. Leo’s deliberate manner differed from ...