While it is far too early to say how he will use his platform to address such issues, his focus shows he is a church leader who grasps the gravity of this modern concern.

Samuel Johnson was an English author and lexicographer who lived between the years of 1709 and 1784. He is best remembered by ...

The Vatican Bank was shrouded in mystery and controversy for decades - and problems remain, even after a decade of reforms ...

The U.S. is one of only a handful of countries that taxes citizens living abroad. Thus, thanks to his American passport, the ...

Director Amalia Ulman explores hipster territory and internet culture in Magic Farm, starring Chloë Sevigny, Alex Wolff and ...

Pope Leo XIV called for a kinder, gentler mass media, one that speaks up for those with no voice and in defense of free ...

Cardinal Prevost's choice of the name Leo links him to Leo XIII, a 19th-century champion of social justice. It also recalls ...

Only days into his papacy, London's Catholic faithful are expressing hope and cautious optimism about the future of the Roman ...

The new Pope, formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost, from Chicago, became the first North American head of the Catholic Church.

Ada Lovelace, born in London in 1815, was the daughter of poet Lord Byron and ... She is regarded as one of the most courageous women in American history for these and other reasons. Frances Ellen ...

Pope Leo XIV has used his first Sunday blessing to call for peace in Gaza, Ukraine and between India and Pakistan.

There were seagulls loitering by the tin chimney at the Vatican as it billowed white smoke heralding the election of Pope Leo XIV the first all-American pope, evocative of land ahoy that seagulls used ...