The pope will be received by House Speaker John Boehner before addressing both the House and Senate. Chief Justice John Roberts, along with Justices Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonya ...

Pope Francis chose his name in honor of St. Francis of Assisi, Italy’s patron saint who emulated the life of Christ like perhaps no other figure in the church's history. New York’s Cardinal Timothy ...

EAST SIDE (WABC) -- After his two days in Washington, D.C., Pope Francis will fly to New York City on Thursday evening, and extra security measures are already going into effect. The amount of ...

NEW YORK (AP) - New York officials have joined Cardinal Timothy Dolan in condemning the scalping of tickets to see Pope Francis' motorcade during his upcoming visit to New York City. About 80,000 ...

Pope Leo XIV met Monday with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church and encouraged his ministry, just days before a planned Holy Year pilgrimage of ...

In his Civil Rights and Civil Liberties column, Christopher Dunn writes: Last week's government-papal engagement refocused attention on a long-standing concern of mine about an invocation of God found ...

Traveling through the Mideast, Leo XIV channeled many of his predecessor’s messages. Leo’s deliberate manner differed from ...