Catholic opposition to the death penalty is relatively new in the church’s history, but has helped shape public debate.

Although the IRS recently allowed religious organizations to address their faithful about electoral politics, the Church will ...

The origins of the hot cross bun traditionally made with currants, spices, flour, and eggs are closely linked to a cathedral dedicated to St. Alban. Wednesday, July 09, 2025 A service of EWTN News ...

VATICAN CITY - The papacy, one of the world’s oldest religious offices, has a history that stretches back more than 2,000 years, with over 260 popes having led the Catholic Church since the time ...

A groundbreaking Catholic archive center will soon make its home in Ohio. The Women Religious Archives Collaborative (WRAC) Heritage Center in Cleveland will document the history of an oft-ignored ...

Robert Prevost, first American pope in history of the Catholic Church, will take the name Leo XIV. Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s ...

Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order who spent his career ministering in Peru, took the name Leo XIV.. In his first words as Pope Francis’ successor, uttered from the ...

Robert Prevost, first American pope in history of the Catholic Church, will take the name Leo XIV May 8, 2025 by NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press | Updated May 8, 2025 at 1:06 p.m.

Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first U.S. pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church, previously led a Catholic religious order. Prevost, 69, who chose the name Pope Leo XIV, was formerly ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States has been elected the 267th pope and has stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as the new leader of the ...

Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order, took the name Leo XIV. Pope Leo XIII, who was head of the Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903, laid the foundation for modern Catholic ...