Despite being the US' highest ranking Catholic in government, pope fans are slightly nervous about his return to the Vatican.

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The election of the first US pope is a godsend to businesses in Rome, as big-spending pilgrims flocking to the Vatican are ...

Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio will attend Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural mass in Vatican City on ...

Pope Leo is just beginning his papacy. The 69-year-old American was elected only last week, but already there are signs ...

The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception will celebrate a special “Mass of Thanksgiving upon the ...

Efforts to restart direct peace talks between Russia and Ukraine are facing challenges as an American delegation leads ...

President Donald Trump arrived to an extravagant state dinner in Qatar flanked by some of his most glamorous aides and a slew ...

Regarding America broadly, here are Leo XIII’s thoughts on the United States in 1895: He “esteemed and loved exceedingly the young and vigorous American nation, in which We plainly discern latent ...

In one of Chicago’s south suburbs, while other boys were playing cops and robbers, the future Pope Leo XIV would pretend to hold Mass in the basement of his family’s small brick home, reading from ...

Vice President JD Vance will attend the inaugural mass of Pope Leo XIV following the pontiff’s historic election as the first ...

Nothing compares to the pageantry of a papal election, not the coronation of a British monarch, a presidential inauguration ...