Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Rome and Vatican City this week in a bid to ease rising tensions ...

The Council of Melkite Greek Catholic Bishops in Lebanon urged the Lebanese government and the United Nations to protect the ...

"As the Supreme Court considered arguments for and against the Trump administration's efforts to end temporary protected ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on May 4 temporarily blocked an appeals court ruling that sought to pause a federal policy ...

I hope I am wrong, but I think that the church in Africa will look very much like the church in the West by the end of this ...

One year in, Pope Leo XIV's papacy has been rooted in truth, unity and love — the distinct gifts of his religious order, the ...

Over 55 years ago, legendary jazz musician Pharoah Sanders recorded a spiritualist masterwork that remains a critical piece ...

Over 11 days and four countries, Leo showed how he embodies the spiritual, prophetic, pastoral and symbolic dimensions of the ...

Catholics had become conditioned to believe the conventional wisdom that an American would never be elected pope, writes ...

The 13th‑century German mystic Mechthild of Magdeburg uses erotic love to describe ecstatic, reciprocal union with God.

NCR's Vatican correspondent Justin McLellan stuck to pen and paper to record his impressions of traveling through North and ...

Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of Bishop Mark E. Brennan of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, and named as his ...