With just one day left in the legislative session, Alabama lawmakers must decide whether to join Florida, Louisiana, and ...

Rome (CNN) — Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost – now known as Pope Leo XIV — is the first pope from the United States. The 69-year-old from Chicago is known as a leader with global experience. He spent ...

US Catholics flocked to churches across the country in a celebratory mood to mark the "excitement" of the first-ever American ...

White smoke billowed from the Sistine Chape l and St. Peter's bells chimed around 6 p.m. local time in Rome on May 8, ...

Vatican firefighters have installed the iconic chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, a key step ahead of the May 7 conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor. Black smoke = no pope yet; white smoke = a new ...

The faithful in Los Angeles, America’s most Catholic city, were delighted — and a little stunned — to learn a Chicago-born ...

The announcement that the AfD would be challenging the classification went largely unnoticed in the United States. But last week, when Germany’s domestic intelligence agency the Bundesamt für ...

President Donald Trump already signed an executive order during his first day in office to rename the Gulf. House Republicans ...

The faithful cheered in the Vatican square, waving flags from many countries in celebration at the arrival of the news ...

“President Trump has been very clear since the beginning that he believes that FEMA and its response in many, many circumstances has failed the American people, and that FEMA, as it exists today, ...

The election of a first North American pontiff came after the death of the first Latin American pope and signaled a ...

Robert Prevost’s election as pope stunned many Catholics skeptical that an American would ever be elevated to that role.