ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe of Catholics, riven by political divisions that have thwarted the ...

“There’s just something so beautiful and transcendent about the rituals and the ancient history in the Catholic Mass that’s been preserved,” Johnston, 30, told The Post. “The church ...

U.S. Catholic leaders are ending their church’s 50-year partnership with the federal government and seeking new ways to help refugees. Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the U.S ...

The Catholic Church announced that priests will be excommunicated if they follow a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report confessions about child abuse to law enforcement.

Update: American Cardinal Robert Prevost has been chosen as the new pope and took the name Leo XIV — the first pope in history from the United States. Pope Francis' death on April 21, the day ...

With the conclave to select a new Pope beginning on May 7, many are wondering in what direction a new pope will take the Catholic Church. The role of women in the Church is a big issue ...