When white smoke billowed out of the Sistine Chapel last May, NCR's former Vatican correspondent Christopher White was there.

The notion of the leader of the Catholic Church playing a word game, lingering at a parishioner's kitchen table, or going to ...

Since his election, Leo has been pursuing a unity that is founded on the person of Jesus Christ and the proclamation of the ...

Chelsea Jordan King, Ph.D., teaches Catholic studies at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut.

The first publicly recognized Black Catholic priest in the United States — who has already had 40 potential miracles through ...

Today's feast invites us to admit our own frustrated desires for certainty in the midst of doubts or weakness of faith. The ...

What kind of renewal does the Spirit bring to the face of Earth? Our official church teaching offers an answer that will not ...

Nine Native American tribes in South Dakota, North Dakota and Nebraska are suing the federal government in a bid to stop ...

The biggest lesson I had to learn is that God's lack of an answer to my prayers to change me was an answer, because there was ...

Where Francis sounded the alarm, Leo has remained focused on what he calls ecological conversion: a transformation of heart ...

Pope Leo XIV met the leadership of Catholic Charities USA in an audience at the Vatican on May 4, offering words of ...

As Ohio prepares for its upcoming gubernatorial election, faith leaders pushed lawmakers on May 4 to end the practice of ...