This undated photograph shows a young Pope Francis, then Jorge Bergoglio, with his family. Back row, from left: his brother ...

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

COMMENTARY: ‘Ad Gentes,’ ‘Evangelli Nuntiandi’ and ‘Redemptoris Missio’ offer a potent reminder that the faithful are a key ...

Bishop Ron Hicks from the Diocese of Joliet is in the running to replace Timothy Cardinal Dolan at the Archdiocese of New ...

Pope Leo is expected to accept Carinal Timothy Dolan's resignation this week and announce a replacement for the Archdiocese of New York.

There's yet to be confirmation from official church sources, including Hicks who, like Pope Leo XIV, hails from Chicago's ...

John Gehring addresses the ways conservative Catholics crafted a coalition with various conservative political forces, ...

Bishop Ronald Hicks could replace Cardinal Timothy Dolan as New York archbishop after Pope Leo XIV accepts Dolan's mandatory ...

In 2018, German artist Michael Triegel asked a homeless man in Rome to pose for a drawing, thinking that he would make an ...

The pontiff offers something rare: a pastor-leader urging the church to reclaim the dignity of every person — not as an ...