The man currently mourned by the world's 1.4 billion Catholics was a boy from a Buenos Aires barrio born to a working-class family of immigrants. An Argentinian and the first Latin American pontiff, ...

Catholic leaders were among those who praised the legacy of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a Baptist minister and prominent civil ...

The new pope has taken a name that recalls Pope Leo XIII, who wrote the outline for modern Catholic social justice teaching. Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on May 8, 2025. Pope Leo XIII, the leader of ...

Few issues in American public life are as divisive and emotionally charged among Catholics as immigration. The topic stirs deep and often conflicting convictions: compassion for migrants and refugees, ...

Students in social studies teacher Jim D'Acosta's American history classes at Fairfield Warde High School learned about the role of religion in the fight for social justice during a day-long field ...

Want to know how the first American pope might lead the Catholic Church? Look no further than his name. Seattle Archbishop Paul D. Etienne said Cardinal Robert Prevost's chosen name, Leo XIV, "tells ...

During his 12 years as head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis was a voice for compassion and peace, reformed the Vatican government and took action against clerical child abuse. Here are some of ...

Bishop Simon Kamomoe, the Auxiliary Bishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Nairobi, has called for justice so that peace can prevail. The call came ahead of the International Day of Peace, marked on ...

Jesuit Fr. James Miracky, vice president for mission integration and ministry at St. Peter’s University, prays during a pro-immigrant prayer vigil outside Delaney Hall, a migrant detention center in ...