To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the historian R.W. Southern once offered ...

An unexpected gesture surprised Pope Leo during a meeting with the faithful. The protagonist of the scene was a devotee who, ...

The US State Department says on its website that it may “actively review” the citizenship status of Americans who “serve as a ...

“Americanism” has often been called a “phantom heresy”, blamed on a French translation of a biography of Father Isaac Hecker, ...

The way the news of the new pope’s heritage was made public speaks to the complexity of discussions of race in the U.S.