One of the most significant powers the Pope possesses is the ability to excommunicate individuals from the Church.

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

The new pontiff, who was chosen as leader of the Catholic Church on Thursday (May 8), has travelled extensively in Asia where ...

President Donald Trump's Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating an “anti-Catholic law” in Washington state that threatens priests with up to one year in jail if they fail to report child ...

What no one saw coming was that somewhere across years of this essentially sectarian conflict, the American Catholic Church, still reeling from endemic molestations and cover-ups, began looking ...

The Catholic Church maintains that only men can be ordained as priests, viewing this not as a cultural tradition but as unchangeable divine law ... mediating in conflict zones, Morelli believes ...

As Pope Leo XIV takes over an often divided Roman Catholic Church and the most prominent pulpit on earth, his voice will be ...

Robert Francis Prevost becomes Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S.-born pope to lead the global Catholic Church, following a ... for future change and any ensuing conflict. In some of Leo’s earliest ...

Pope Leo XIV is being scrutinized for how he might interact with the Trump administration after its rifts with the late Pope ...

In a statement on Monday, the DOJ announced that the Civil Rights Division would “investigate the apparent conflict ... law and violating their faith as practiced for millennia. The Catholic ...

In the Catholic Church, priests are not allowed ... launching an investigation into “the apparent conflict between Washington State’s new law with the free exercise of religion under the ...