On their final night together, coach Mark Pope’s first Kentucky basketball team broke a school record that had been around for 32 years. In fact, it was a mark that was set the season before Pope ...

The newly-annointed Pope Leo XIV — formerly cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago, Illinois — revealed this weekend that his name choice was inspired in part by AI, which he sees as a possible threat to ...

VATICAN CITY -- The temporary chimney atop the Sistine Chapel released a plume of white smoke on Thursday evening local time, signaling that the 133 cardinals working inside had reached a two-thirds ...

"Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own," wrote Pope Leo XIII, in his famous 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum, laying down the basics of Catholic social teaching. The plans of ...

A version of this article was first published in the State of Faith newsletter. Sign up to receive the newsletter in your inbox each Monday night. Soon after Pope Leo XIV emerged on the balcony of St.

In Chicago, people are very excited about Pope Leo XIV, or Father Bob, as those who’ve known Robert Francis Prevost a long time reflexively call him. It’s titillating to imagine Pope Leo roaming the ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected pope on Thursday, he chose the name Leo XIV — joining a centuries-old tradition in which each new pontiff selects a name with ...

The pope is in for a holy holiday tradition. After a surprising rise to the top position, Pope Leo XIV will be taking a summer holiday. He recently announced plans to stay at the Castel Gandolfo — a ...